Overview

Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastassya Filippovna. Bando Tamasaburo, regarded as one of the most outstanding female impersonators in Japanese theater, plays the dual role of Myshkin and Nastassya.

Top Cast

Tamasaburō Bandō V

Prince Myshkin / Nastasya Filippovna

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Parfyon Rogozhin