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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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Shochiku
Original Title
白痴
Original Language
Japanese
Cast
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Setsuko Hara
Taeko Nasu
M
Masayuki Mori
Kinji Kameda
T
Toshirō Mifune
Denkichi Akama
Y
Yoshiko Kuga
Ayako
T
Takashi Shimura
Ono, Ayako's father
C
Chieko Higashiyama
Satoko, Ayako's mother
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Eijirō Yanagi
Tohata
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Minoru Chiaki
Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
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Noriko Sengoku
Takako
K
Kokuten Kōdō
Junpei
B
Bokuzen Hidari
Karube
E
Eiko Miyoshi
Madame Kayama
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Chiyoko Fumiya
Noriko
D
Daisuke Inoue
Kaoru
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Fumio Tooyama
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Jun Yokoyama
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Kunio Teshirogi
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Shoichi Kofujita
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Yoichi Osugi
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Keiko Izumi
