A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Kameda where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Setsuko Hara | ... | Taeko Nasu | |
| Masayuki Mori | ... | Kinji Kameda | |
| Toshirô Mifune | ... | Denkichi Akama | |
| Yoshiko Kuga | ... | Ayako | |
| Takashi Shimura | ... | Ono, Ayako's father | |
| Chieko Higashiyama | ... | Satoko, Ayako's mother | |
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Eijirô Yanagi | ... | Tohata |
| Minoru Chiaki | ... | Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary | |
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Noriko Sengoku | ... | Takako |
| Kokuten Kôdô | ... | Jumpei | |
| Bokuzen Hidari | ... | Karube | |
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Eiko Miyoshi | ... | Madame Kayama |
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Chiyoko Fumiya | ... | Noriko |
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Mitsuyo Akashi | ... | Madame Akama |
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Daisuke Inoue | ... | Kaoru |
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Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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Country:
JapanLanguage:
JapaneseRelease Date:
30 April 1963 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Idiot See more »Filming Locations:
Hokkaido, JapanCompany Credits
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MonoColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Taeko Nasu: I certainly do. I daresay I know far better than you.
Ayako: That's a lie! You couldn't possibly know.
Taeko Nasu: Why not?
Ayako: Why not? Because you only ever think of yourself. Drunk on your own misery, you don't see the grief you cause in others.
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(uncredited)
Music by Modest Mussorgsky
Played during the ice carnival
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Filmed as a two-part production running 265 minutes. Shochiku (the studio) told Akira Kurosawa that the film had to be cut in half, because it was too long; he told them, "In that case, better cut it lengthwise." The film was released truncated at 166 minutes. See more »Quotes
Ayako: Do you have any idea what sort of person Mr. Kameda is?Taeko Nasu: I certainly do. I daresay I know far better than you.
Ayako: That's a lie! You couldn't possibly know.
Taeko Nasu: Why not?
Ayako: Why not? Because you only ever think of yourself. Drunk on your own misery, you don't see the grief you cause in others.
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A Night on Bald Mountain(uncredited)
Music by Modest Mussorgsky
Played during the ice carnival
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Although severely mutilated, this film still distillates the genius of Kurosawa, unfortunately the artistic decisions are still made by the people who have the money, not by the people who have the talent.
For the people who have read Dostoievski's "The Idiot", I think this film will be an amazing experience. For the rest the movie probably won't be very clear, because the studio edited off over an hour of footage, which obviously crippled the movie.
That was the luck which Kurosawa's "The Idiot" ran. And many of other films too.
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