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I Live in Fear

Movie
1955
1h 43m
Japanese
Drama
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
Rating
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7.4
IMDB
I Live in Fear (1955) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
70

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Toshir Mifune
Kiichi Nakajima
Takashi Shimura
Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
Minoru Chiaki
Jiro Nakajima
Masao Shimizu
Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Eiko Miyoshi
Toyo Nakajima
Kyoko Aoyama
Sue Nakajima
Haruko Tg
Yoshi Nakajima
Noriko Sengoku
Kimie Nakajima
Akemi Negishi
Asako Kuribayashi
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Ryoichi Sayama
Kichijir Ueda
Mr. Kuribayashi father
Eijir Tno
Old man from Brazil
Yutaka Sada
Ichiro Nakajima
Ken Mitsuda
Judge Araki
Atsushi Watanabe
Factory Worker Ishida
Toranosuke Ogawa
Hori, the lawyer
Nobuo Nakamura
Psychologist
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Factory Worker after Fire
Akira Tani
Chunky Jailbird
Kokuten Kd
Workers' Older Family Member
Noriko Honma
Worker family member
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa

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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The original title of the film is Ikimono no kiroku.
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CinemaSerf
2 years ago
This is a far cry from the usual Kurosawa/Mifune effort; indeed in this, Toshirô Mifune is almost unrecognisable. No brave, honourable Samurai this time, but an elderly foundry-owner who is paranoid about the potential impact of nuclear war on his family. To this end, he is determined to sell up an More
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