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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.

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Based on The Idiot
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Set in Japan and Sapporo
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Music by Fumio Hayasaka
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Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Fyodor DostoevskyNovel
Akira KurosawaScreenplay
Eijiro HisaitaScreenplay
Original title: 白痴
Status: Released
Release date: May 23, 1951
Original language: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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