There's a dreamlike quality to the story and the actors take on a trance-like state that fits the up-and-down emotional states of the volatile characters.
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06/12/06
The Idiot (1951)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:5
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 46 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Kurosawa's early paean to his favorite writer, Dostoevski, is an expressionist tour-de-force, resetting to postwar Japan the Russian tale of the "holy fool," a prince whose simple goodness sparks... [More]
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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