Masayuki Mori
Kinji Kameda
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The Idiot ( Japanese: 白痴, Hepburn: Hakuchi) is a 1951 Japanese film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the 1869 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. [3] The original 265-minute version of the film, faithful to the novel, has been long lost. A nearly three-hour release, reflecting a 100-minute studio-imposed cut ...
The Idiot: Directed by Akira Kurosawa. With Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga. A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
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- Drama, Romance
- Akira Kurosawa
- 1963-04-30
The Idiot. After finishing what would become his international phenomenon Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa immediately turned to one of the most daring, and problem-plagued, productions of his career. The Idiot, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's nineteenth-century masterpiece about a wayward, pure soul's reintegration into society—updated by ...
- Taeko Nasu
The Idiot. After finishing what would become his international phenomenon Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa immediately turned to one of the most daring, and problem-plagued, productions of his career. The Idiot, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's nineteenth-century masterpiece about a wayward, pure soul's reintegration into society—updated by ...
- 166 min
- 15.7K
- Shadows of the Dark
Kinji Kameda, a war veteran, was almost executed in a military process, that was until a last minute reprieve found him innocent of the charge. The resulting turmoil, spent in a VA hospital, led to him suffering mentally, he now clinically deemed an idiot. The military having declared him legally dead in the ensuing time makes him open to abuse ...
Synopsis. Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.
The Idiot is the most problematic and contentious of the films that Kurosawa made in his magnificent middle period, an overly ambitious adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's famous novel that was comprehensively ruined by a ham-fisted last-minute re-edit. The Idiot was Kurosawa's dream project, the film he had always wanted to make.
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