The Idiot (1951)

Movie Details

Original Title 白痴

Original Language JA

Status Released

Popularity 0.8

Cast

Setsuko Hara

Taeko Nasu

Popularity: 1.5

Masayuki Mori

Kinji Kameda

Popularity: 1.4

Toshirō Mifune

Denkichi Akama

Popularity: 2.7

Yoshiko Kuga

Ayako

Popularity: 2.1

Takashi Shimura

Ono, Ayako's father

Popularity: 2.5

Chieko Higashiyama

Satoko, Ayako's mother

Popularity: 1.0

Eijirō Yanagi

Tohata

Popularity: 1.2

Minoru Chiaki

Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

Popularity: 1.9

Noriko Sengoku

Takako

Popularity: 1.5

Kokuten Kōdō

Junpei

Popularity: 1.0

Bokuzen Hidari

Karube

Popularity: 1.3

Eiko Miyoshi

Madame Kayama

Popularity: 1.1

Key Crew

Producer Takashi Koide

Director Akira Kurosawa

Editor Akira Kurosawa

Screenplay Akira Kurosawa, Eijirō Hisaita

Production

Shochiku

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Keywords

jealousy love triangle snow blizzard dostoevsky post war japan epileptic russian literature

Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 7/10

Feb 12, 2023

"Kameda" (Masayuki Mori) is a Japanese soldier suffering from what looks like a degree of PTSD after he only narrowly escaped a firing squad for a crime he did not commit in his country's war with Russia. His mental status is distinctly precarious when he heads home. Along the way he encounters the ... Read more