I Live in Fear (1955)

Original title

生きものの記録

Directed by

Akira Kurosawa

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

U

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 122 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An elderly factory owner in postwar Japan becomes obsessed with relocating his large family to Brazil because he fears a nuclear attack. His family and the authorities try to stop him, seeing his plan as irrational.

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What happens

I Live in Fear (Japanese: 生きものの記録, Hepburn: Ikimono no Kiroku; lit. 'Record of a Living Being') is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, produced by Sōjirō Motoki, and co-written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni. The film is about an elderly Japanese factory owner so terrified of the prospect of a nuclear attack that he becomes determined to move his entire extended family to what he imagines is the safety of a farm in Brazil. The film stars Kurosawa regulars Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, and is the director's last with composer Fumio Hayasaka, who died while working on it. It is in black-and-white and runs 103 minutes. The film was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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