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World Cinema: The Idiot

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on BBC Two England

The second of three films by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
Starring Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara

In this film the story is transferred from 19th-century St Petersburg to modern-day Japan. Dostoevsky's symbol of Christian goodness and innocence, 'the idiot,' epileptic Prince Myshkin becomes the ex-prisoner Kameda, and Rogozhin in the original story becomes Akama.

Contributors

Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Kinji Kameda:
Masayuki Mori
Denkichi Akama:
Toshiro Mifune
Taeko Nasu:
Satsuko Hara
Ono:
Takashi Shimura
Satoko:
Chicko Higashiyama
Noriko:
Chiyoko Fumiya
Ayako:
Yoshiko Kuga
Mutsuo Kayama:
Minoru Chiaki
Jyunpei:
Kokuten Kodo
Kayama's mother:
Eiko Miyoshi
Takako:
Noriko Sengoku
Kaoru:
Daisuke Inoue
Tohata:
Eijiro Yanagi
Karube:
Bokuzen Hidari
Akama's mother:
Mitsuyo Akashi
Source: Radio Times

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