The Idiot
白痴
CINEMA1951-05-23
RegionJP
Runtime166 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Kurosawa transposes Dostoevsky's innocence, desire, and destruction into a Japanese winter landscape, giving the novel's spiritual pain a new severity.”
Storyline
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 ...
DIRECTOR / Director
Akira Kurosawa
KEYWORDS
jealousylove trianglesnowblizzarddostoevskypost war japanepilepticrussian literature
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