
One Wonderful Sunday(1947)
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.


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.

Setsuko Hara
Taeko Nasu

Masayuki Mori
Kinji Kameda

Toshirō Mifune
Denkichi Akama

Yoshiko Kuga
Ayako

Takashi Shimura
Ono, Ayako's father

Chieko Higashiyama
Satoko, Ayako's mother

Eijirō Yanagi
Tohata

Minoru Chiaki
Mutsuo Kayama, the secretary

Noriko Sengoku
Takako

Kokuten Kōdō
Junpei
The Idiot is a drama, romance film released in 1951 exploring themes of jealousy, love triangle, snow, blizzard, dostoevsky, post war japan. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, it stars Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirō Mifune. 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.
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