Idiot, The

Synopsis: Kurosawa’s only adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel. His dramatisation uproots the novel’s Russian summer setting to a snowbound Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan. DVD extras: newly restored high-definition transfer; video introduction by Alex Cox; new English subtitle translation; Shochiku production stills gallery; 36-page booklet with a new essay by Daryl Chin, and a reprint of the section on ‘The Idiot’ from ‘Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema’ by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.
Series: Masters of Cinema
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Year of release: 2005
Year of production: 1951
Subjects: Literature; Media studies
Keywords: cinema - Japan; film adaptations; literature - Russian; Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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