Akira Kurosawa: Every Movie Ranked Worst To Best

The worst thing that could have happened to Kurosawa's daring adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Idiot did in fact happen, as Toho Studios cruelly cut his finished product by two hours.

The director's original cut has long been lost, and the two-and-a-half hour drama left in its wake is a mere shell of what it could have been.

Something of a passion product for Kurosawa, the film is far from an all-out failure, featuring gorgeous scenery and the filmmaker's most curious experimentation, but even in its best moments it can't overcome its uneven narrative and jarring pace.