The Idiot

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The Idiot is a 1951 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel of the same name and transposed to a postwar Hokkaido setting.

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instanceOf Japanese film
black-and-white film
drama film
adaptationType literary adaptation
artDirector Takashi Matsuyama
basedOn The Idiot (novel)
linked to: The Idiot
basedOnAuthor Fyodor Dostoevsky
blackAndWhite true
characterBasedOn Nastasya Filippovna
Parfyon Rogozhin
Prince Myshkin
cinematographyBy Toshio Ubukata
costumeDesigner Masae Miyazaki
countryOfOrigin Japan
director Akira Kurosawa
distributedInFormat 35 mm film
distributor Shochiku
editedBy Toshio Goto
followedInKurosawaFilmographyBy Ikiru
hasGenre romantic drama film
hasTheme compassion
guilt
redemption
tragic love
musicBy Fumio Hayasaka
notableFor transposing Dostoevsky’s novel to postwar Hokkaido
originalLanguage Japanese
partiallyLost yes
partOfFilmographyOf Akira Kurosawa
precededInKurosawaFilmographyBy Rashomon
linked to: Rashōmon
productionCompany Shochiku
Shochiku Ofuna Studio
linked to: Shochiku
releaseDateJapan 1951-05-23
releaseYear 1951
romanizedTitle Hakuchi
runtimeOriginalCut 265 minutes
runtimeTheatricalCut 166 minutes
screenwriter Akira Kurosawa
Eijirō Hisaita
setInLocation Hokkaido
setInPeriod postwar Japan
stars Masayuki Mori
Setsuko Hara
Toshirō Mifune
Yoshiko Kuga
titleInJapanese 白痴

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Akira Kurosawa notableWork The Idiot
Hideo Oguni wroteScreenplayFor The Idiot