I Live in Fear
Ikimono no kiroku
1955, Film, 103 min, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 70
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Cast
- Toshirō Mifune as Kiichi Nakajima
- Takashi Shimura as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
- Minoru Chiaki as Jiro Nakajima
- Eiko Miyoshi as Toyo Nakajima
- Kyōko Aoyama as Sue Nakajima
- Haruko Tôgô as Yoshi Nakajima
- Noriko Sengoku as Kimie Nakajima
- Akemi Negishi as Asako Kuribayashi
- Hiroshi Tachikawa as Ryoichi Sayama
- Kichijirō Ueda as Mr. Kuribayashi father
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