Overview
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry HokkaidĹ and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kamedaâs saintly compassion exposes everyoneâs wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevskyâs novel.
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Cast
Setsuko Hara
Taeko Nasu
Masayuki Mori
Kinji Kameda
ToshirĹ Mifune
Denkichi Akama
Yoshiko Kuga
Ayako
Takashi Shimura
Ono, Ayako's father
Chieko Higashiyama
Satoko, Ayako's mother
EijirĹ Yanagi
Tohata
Minoru Chiaki
Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary
Origin:JP
Languages:ja
