The Idiot
1951 · 166 min · Director: Akira Kurosawa
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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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The Idiot (1951) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 30%, Empathy 25%, Sadness 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
- Melancholy30%
- Empathy25%
- Sadness20%
- Anxiety15%
- Love10%
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The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Empathy, Sadness. Genres: Drama, Romance. AI estimate.
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Cast
Tohata
Noriko
Madame Akama
Kaoru
Details
- Directed by
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written by
- Akira Kurosawa, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eijiro Hisaita
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 1951
- Runtime
- 166 min
- Country
- Japan
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Melancholy
- Data updated
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