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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.
Released: 1951-05-23166 minDir: Akira KurosawaDrama, Romance
Stream on: Criterion Channel
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
- Duration
- 166
- FilmAffinity ID
- 739945
- Image
- Hakuchi poster.jpg
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- Commons category
- The Idiot (film)
- publication date
- 1951-05-23
- title
- 白痴
- review score
- 64%
- capital cost
- 70000000
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Categories
1951 drama films1951 films1951 Japanese films1951 Japanese-language filmsFilms based on The IdiotFilms directed by Akira KurosawaFilms scored by Fumio HayasakaFilms set in HokkaidoFilms set in SapporoFilms with screenplays by Akira KurosawaJapanese black-and-white filmsJapanese drama filmsShochiku filmsTemplate film date with 1 release date