The Idiot

A 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.

• Akira KurosawaDirector
• Fumio HayasakaOriginal Music Composer
• Akira KurosawaScreenplay
• Eijiro HisaitaScreenplay

• Setsuko HaraTaeko Nasu
• Masayuki MoriKinji Kameda
• Toshirō MifuneDenkichi Akama
• Yoshiko KugaAyako
• Takashi ShimuraOno, Ayako's father
• Chieko HigashiyamaSatoko, Ayako's mother
• Eijirō YanagiTohata
• Minoru ChiakiMutsuo Kayama, the secretary
• Noriko SengokuTakako
• Kokuten KōdōJunpei
• Bokuzen HidariKarube
• Eiko MiyoshiMadame Kayama