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The Idiot is a 1951 Japanese black-and-white drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also served as screenwriter and film editor. Produced by Shochiku, the movie is based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The cast includes Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga, Toshirō Mifune, and Masayuki Mori. The narrative is set in Sapporo, Japan, and features music composed by Fumio Hayasaka.
The film has a runtime of 166 minutes and was released on May 23, 1951. It was distributed by The Criterion Collection and is available on the Criterion Channel. The production cost was 70,000,000. The work addresses themes of jealousy, love triangles, snow, and blizzards. It is rated Not Rated and has received various review scores, including 6.9 out of 10, 64 percent, and 7.1 out of 10.
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7.0A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
Cast
- Setsuko Hara as Taeko Nasu
- Masayuki Mori as Kinji Kameda
- Toshirō Mifune as Denkichi Akama
- Yoshiko Kuga as Ayako
- Takashi Shimura as Ono, Ayako's father
- Chieko Higashiyama as Satoko, Ayako's mother
Themes
- jealousy
- love triangle
- snow
- blizzard
- dostoevsky
- post war japan
- epileptic
- russian literature
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Ratings
IMDb
7.1/10
5,828 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
60%
- Year
- 1951
- Runtime
- 166 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Rated
- Not Rated
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Based on
- The Idiot
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenwriter
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast member
- Minoru Chiaki
- Composer
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Production company
- Shochiku
- Narrative location
- Japan
- Duration
- 166
- FilmAffinity ID
- 739945
- Image
- Hakuchi poster.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Idiot (film)
- publication date
- 1951-05-23
- film editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- title
- 白痴
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- The Criterion Collection
- after a work by
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 64%
- capital cost
- 70000000
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