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Akira Kurosawa

Hakuchi (The Idiot)

166' - 1951 - Drama, Romance - Dialogue: Japanese
Director: Akira Kurosawa Composer: Fumio Hayasaka With: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune
A Japanese veteran, driven partially mad from the war, travels to the snowy island of Hokkaido where he soon enters a love triangle with his best friend and a disgraced woman.

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Credits

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Composer

Fumio Hayasaka

With

Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune

Scenario

Akira Kurosawa, Eijirô Hisaita

Director of Photography

Toshio Ubukata

Editor

Akira Kurosawa

More information

Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Screenplay based on

"De Idioot" (Fjodor Dostojevski)

Year

1951

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