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Title: The Idiot

Original Title: Hakuchi

Year: 1951

Info

  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 166 Minutes (2 hours 46 min)
  • Genre: Drama
  • Age rating: PG (Parental guidance)

Release Dates

  • United States: April 30 1963

Plot

A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled compassion for people after he moves in with friends of his family as he tries to help a young man ruined by the war and a woman hounded by a wealthy but cruel suitor. All the characters are victims of the war and its devastating emotional aftershocks.

Cast

Director:

Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune

Toshirô Mifune

Denkichi Akama

Takasi Shimura

Takasi Shimura

Ono, Ayako's father

Minoru Chiaki

Minoru Chiaki

Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

Soundtrack from 'The Idiot'

In the Hall of the Mountain King

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Edvard Grieg

Lady of Spain

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Tolchard Evans

A Night on Bald Mountain

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Modest Mussorgsky

Oh How We Danced

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Iosif Ivanovici arranged by Saul Chaplin lyrics by Al Jolson

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