Product Details

• Format: Black & White, NTSC, Full length, Import, Dolby
• Region: All Regions
• ASIN: B0014N7N2K
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,683 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A former soldier is branded an idiot because of his epileptic seizures caused by wartime experiences. He shows unbridled compassion for people after he moves in with friends of his family as he tries to help a young man ruined by the war and a woman hounded by a wealthy but cruel suitor. All the characters are victims of the war and its devastating emotional aftershocks. Taken from Feodor Dostoyevsky's classic novel, the screenplay was written by the film's director, Akira Kurosawa. The famous story of the too honest and good-hearted prince, the perverse beauty and the gloomy merehant's son takes place in Hokkaido instdead of Petersburg. The beauty toys with the affections of both men while the prince is also attracted to an upstanding general's dauther...After his international breakthrough and success with Rashomon, Kurosawa updated Dostoyevsky's novel with this minor classic. Following closely the plot of his favorite literary work but in a slavish manner, the Japanese master managed to capture the original's greatness, filtered through his own sensibility.