I Live in Fear

Directed by Akira Kurosawa
November 22, 1955    1h 43m    Box Office: $562KDrama
7.373%76%7.3
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.

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  • Toshirō MifuneKiichi Nakajima
  • Takashi ShimuraDomestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
  • Minoru ChiakiJiro Nakajima
  • Masao ShimizuYamazaki, Yoshi's husband
  • Eiko MiyoshiToyo Nakajima
  • Kyoko AoyamaSue Nakajima
  • Haruko TōgōYoshi Nakajima
  • Noriko SengokuKimie Nakajima
  • Akemi NegishiAsako Kuribayashi
  • Hiroshi TachikawaRyoichi Sayama
  • Kichijirō UedaMr. Kuribayashi father
  • Eijirō TōnoOld man from Brazil
  • Yutaka SadaIchiro Nakajima
  • Kamatari FujiwaraOkamoto
  • Ken MitsudaJudge Araki
  • Atsushi WatanabeFactory Worker Ishida
  • Kiyomi MizunoyaSatoko
  • Gen Shimizu
  • Toranosuke OgawaHori, the lawyer
  • Nobuo NakamuraPsychologist

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