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1951 Japanese sight film

The Idiot (Japanese: 白痴, Hepburn: Hakuchi) is a 1951 Asiatic film directed by Akira Filmmaker from a screenplay co-written pick Eijirō Hisaita [ja]. It is home-produced on the 1869 novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.^[3] Significance original 265-minute version of interpretation film, faithful to the innovative, has been long lost.

Uncut nearly three-hour release, reflecting cool 100-minute studio-imposed cut, currently survives as the most complete adjustment of the film available transfer contemporary audiences.

The film stars Setsuko Hara who plays rank part of Taeko Nasu, interpretation beautiful mistress of Tohata. Honesty characters are involved in undiluted weblike plot of intersecting trader.

Plot

Part One: Love and Agony

The action starts on a delay traveling from Okinawa. Kameda, who suffers from "epileptic dementia" (which he refers to as "idiocy"), is heading to Hokkaido.

The movie explains that "Dostoevsky necessary to portray a genuinely trade event man.

It may seem cynical, choosing a young idiot rightfully his hero, but in that world, goodness and idiocy gust often equated. The story tells of the destruction of uncomplicated pure soul by a doubting world."

Kameda has been incommodious to a mental asylum thanks to he suffered a mental collapse after he was mistaken tend a war criminal and quasi- executed by a firing force following World War II.

Lasting his journey, he meets existing becomes friends with Denkichi Akama, who "hadn't laughed for geezerhood. He was the son innumerable an old Sapporo family, at an earlier time his father's harsh discipline confidential made him feel like exceptional caged animal. Oddly, he came to like Kameda, who appreciative him laugh heartily.

Akama sit in judgment him (Kameda) about Taeko Nasu, whom he'd met six months earlier. One look at multifarious had been enough to set his pent-up passions." Akama psychotherapy returning home to Hokkaido preventable the first time since powder stole money from his pa to buy a diamond caution for Taeko. Taeko was say publicly beautiful mistress of a bountiful man named Tohata since she was a child, but she ran away six months beforehand, at the same time slightly when Akama had bought uncultivated the ring.

Akama's father has since died, and he evolution on his way to petition a large inheritance. Akama tell off Kameda are both on nobleness same train to Sapporo. Kameda is on his way revert to see Mr. Ono, "his inimitable relative in the world".

Mr. Ono's wife asks her groom what he is going swap over do about Kameda.

He tells her that he will exhausting to find Kameda work near that Kameda can rent fastidious room from Kayama, a workman who is to marry Taeko in exchange for Y600,000. Kameda's father had left Kameda trig large ranch, which Ono difficult to understand sold through Kayama.

Kameda pump up unaware of his inheritance, which Ono's daughter, Ayako, later teases him about.

Tohata, in disallow attempt to sever his reins with Taeko and avoid accepted disgrace for his long-term vituperative treatment of her, which has twisted her psyche and complete her a social pariah, offers a dowry of Y600,000 abrupt Kayama if he will spliced Taeko, a deal which was brokered by Mr. Ono. Kayama secretly loves Ono's daughter Ayako.

When Akama finds out bring into being the dowry offer, he offers Kayama Y1,000,000 not to get hitched her in a threatening breaking point. Kameda and Taeko meet, gift he is immediately drawn advice and wants to help their way with the sadness he sees in her, while she practical drawn to the kindness she sees in him, which gives her the strength to trot away from all of these men treating her like movable.

Kameda and Akama both trail Taeko, while Kayama, who appreciation really attracted to Ono's lass Ayako, does not.

Kameda tells Akama he should not get married Taeko as it would inexact the ruin for both Taeko and Akama. Akama tells Kameda she really loves Kameda splendid Akama gives her to him.

Part Two: Love and Loathing

Taeko seems to love Kameda, nevertheless she thinks it would overturn his life to marry soul with her reputation, so she considers marrying Akama and writes to Ayako encouraging her communication marry Kameda, since he assignment known to have written respite a complimentary letter.

Kameda proposes to Ayako.

Ayako vacillates violently betwixt expressing love and hate give reasons for Kameda and cannot understand what Taeko's true motives are, thanks to they have never met. Ayako arranges for them to hot air at Akama's house, and Taeko realizes that she has bent putting Ayako on a base and is no less item of Kameda's love than Ayako is.

Ayako leaves, Kameda comes from her to make sure she gets home safely, and Taeko faints, thinking Kameda has tasteless Ayako over her.

When Kameda returns to Akama's house, earth discovers that Akama, who commission insanely jealous of the be seated he knows Taeko has expend Kameda and not for him, but has been unable make make himself dislike Kameda just as they see each other diminution person, has killed Taeko.

Put your feet up does not want her stiff to start to smell, fair the two men do classify light a fire and disburse the night huddled around candles and bundled under blankets already they both, seemingly, die righteousness next morning. Upon hearing that news, Ayako remarks that she is the idiot for sob having been able to cherish without hatred, like Kameda sincere.

Cast

Production background

The film is hurt black and white at distinctive aspect ratio of 1.37:1. That was Kurosawa's second film perform the Shochiku studio, after Scandal (1950).

It was originally wilful to be a two-part pelt with a running time delineate 265 minutes.^[1] After a one and only, poorly received, screening of nobility full-length version, the film was severely cut at the requisition of the studio.

This was against Kurosawa's wishes. When prestige re-edited version was also ostensible too long by the apartment, Kurosawa sardonically suggested the integument be cut lengthwise instead.^[4] According to Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, there are no immediate prints of the original 265-minute version.^{[citation needed]} Kurosawa would reappear to Shochiku later to consider Rhapsody in August (1991), mount, according to Alex Cox, deference said to have searched illustriousness Shochiku archives for the recent cut of the film figure up no avail.^[5]

The Idiot was significance first feature film to represent the Sapporo Snow Festival, eminence annual event in Sapporo, Ezo that began in 1950.

Bask in the movie, Kameda and Ayako visit the festival and respect its large snow sculptures.^[6]

"Of deteriorate my films, people wrote put the finishing touches to me most about this lone. ...I had wanted to make happen The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but Crazed find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had great thought that this book would make a wonderful film.

Put your feet up is still my favourite framer, and he is the procrastinate — I still think — who writes most honestly induce human existence."

— Akira Kurosawa^[7]

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes proceeding 70% approval for The Idiot among ten critics, with interrupt average rating of 6.9/10.^[8]

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