The Idiots

The Idiots

120 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 18, 2010

10 years ago Hide, a college student, meets Yuki Gakuko, an older woman, through work. They become lovers with Hide falling hard for Yuki Gakuko. The following year, Yuki abruptly announces one day that she is going to marry another man. This devastates Hide. Hide eventually finishes college and finds a job, but his yearning for Yuki leads him into depression and alcoholism. Meanwhile, Yuki is involved in a car accident and suffers a life altering injury. Now, 10 years later the two former lovers come across each other once again. They are both shells of their former selves ...

The Idiots

120 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 18, 2010

The Idiots
10 years ago Hide, a college student, meets Yuki Gakuko, an older woman, through work. They become lovers with Hide falling hard for Yuki Gakuko. The following year, Yuki abruptly announces one day that she is going to marry another man. This devastates Hide. Hide eventually finishes college and finds a job, but his yearning for Yuki leads him into depression and alcoholism. Meanwhile, Yuki is involved in a car accident and suffers a life altering injury. Now, 10 years later the two former lovers come across each other once again. They are both shells of their former selves ...
Producers Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Booster Project
Original title ばかもの
Directors Shusuke Kaneko
Writers Miyuki Takahashi, Akiko Itoyama

Cast

Hiroki Narimiya

as Hide

Yuki Uchida

as Gakuko

Miho Shiraishi

as Shoko

Yuri Nakamura

as Yuki Yamane

Reina Asami

as Hide's older sister

Natsuki Okamoto

as Megumi

Miyoko Asada

as Hide's mom

Takashi Kobayashi

as Hide's dad

Yûko Kotegawa

as Gakuko's mom