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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Setsuko HaraTaeko Nasu
Masayuki MoriKinji Kameda
Toshirō MifuneDenkichi Akama
Yoshiko KugaAyako
Takashi ShimuraOno, Ayako's father
Chieko HigashiyamaSatoko, Ayako's mother
Eijirō YanagiTohata
Minoru ChiakiMutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Noriko SengokuTakako
Kokuten KōdōJunpei
Bokuzen HidariKarube
Eiko MiyoshiMadame KayamaExplore the crew
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Producer
- Takashi Koide
- Original Music Composer
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- Director of Photography
- Toshio Ubukata
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Eijiro Hisaita