The Idiot ( Hakuchi ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]

Starring: Chieko Higashiyama, Chiyoko Fumiya Director: Akira Kurosawa Format: DVD

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Actors: Chieko Higashiyama, Chiyoko Fumiya, Eijir� Yanagi, Eiko Miyoshi, Masayuki Mori
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 4 (Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1.0
Studio: AV Channel
Run Time: 159 minutes

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

ASIN: B000GBK2VU
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #167,974 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars To say always the truth is hazardous, because will always hurt somebody!, March 10, 2007

By	Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

The profound gaze of Akira Kurosawa about a simple man, na�ve and idiot, considered by the doctors as a dement epileptic, will face the world with his only weapon; the truth and nothing more the truth. But as you know, in this world of wolves, you must sleep with an eye open and just a few persons are capable to accept the awful truth that can make you blind.

This powerful dramatis personae will involve two women who will love him from different perspectives. Inspired in the famous work of Dostoievsky, this another great gem of this master filmmaker.

Watch it and you will experience the crude reality of the madness and feel what it means to be just in the razor's edge.

Extraordinary and one of my top one hundred desert island films.

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