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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. The original 265-minute version of the film, faithful to the novel, has been long lost.
- Takashi Koide
- Fumio Hayasaka
- 23 May 1951
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
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A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled compassion for people after he moves in with friends of his family as he tries to help a young man ruined by the war and a woman hounded by a wealthy but cruel suitor.
Hakuchi (1951) - Turner Classic Movies. 2h 46m 1951. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A former mental patient's romantic involvements lead to tragedy. Cast & Crew. Read More. Akira Kurosawa. Director. Setsuko Hara. Taeko. Masayuki Mori. Toshiro Mifune. Akama.
- Akira Kurosawa
- Setsuko Hara
Mar 11, 2016 · No other work has been a better companion to Dostoyevsky’s unrelenting view of humanity than Akira Kurosawa’s much-maligned 1951 film Hakuchi. The original cut stood at 265 minutes, trimmed to 166 minutes by studio executives at Shochiku against the director’s wishes.
The Idiot (1951) aka Hakuchi "This story tells the destruction of a pure soul by a faithless world." Fyodor Dostoyevsky was one of Akira Kurosawa's favorite novelists and a great influence on the director; he had long wanted to make his novel The Idiot into a film.
Hakuchi (白雉) was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. "year name") after the Taika era and before Shuchō. This period spanned the years from February 650 through December 654. The reigning emperor was Kōtoku-tennō (孝徳天皇).
