I Live in Fear
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.
Top cast
Toshirō 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 Tōgō
Yoshi Nakajima
Noriko Sengoku
Kimie Nakajima
Akemi Negishi
Asako Kuribayashi
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Ryoichi Sayama
Kichijirō Ueda
Mr. Kuribayashi father
Eijirō Tōno
Old man from Brazil
Yutaka Sada
Ichiro Nakajima
Kamatari Fujiwara
Okamoto
Ken Mitsuda
Judge Araki
Where to watch
Stream
Criterion ChannelAvailability for US · streaming data provided by JustWatch via TMDB.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 22, 1955
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Original language
- JA
- Original title
- 生きものの記録
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