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The Idiot

Original title: Hakuchi
1951 · 2 h 46 min
Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Japan · Japanese Golden Age
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Cast

Setsuko Hara Masayuki Mori Toshirō Mifune Yoshiko Kuga Takashi Shimura Chieko Higashiyama

Credits

Written by: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Plot

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier arrives in Hokkaido and is drawn into a volatile love triangle.

Sinekatalog’s take

Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Dostoevsky is intense and long, with Masayuki Mori and Toshiro Mifune, though cut by the studio.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (6,340 votes)
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