Where to watch
Stream
- Criterion Channel
- Released
- Runtime
- 2h 46m
About The Idiot
- Drama
- Romance
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Akira Kurosawa
- Eijiro Hisaita
- Original title
- 白痴
