The Idiot (1951)
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ThumbScore
👍 86%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 64%
(RT: 64%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Setsuko Hara as Taeko Nasu
Yoshiko Kuga as Ayako
Chieko Higashiyama as Satoko, Ayako's mother
Eijirō Yanagi as Tohata
Is The Idiot good?
Yes. 86% audience score, estimated from 137 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 64%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel. Wikipedia ↗
