I Live in Fear Movie Review 1955

Nakajima, an elderly, wealthy owner of a foundry, becomes increasingly fearful of atomic war and the threats to his family's safety. He tries to persuade them to leave Japan and move with him to Brazil but they fear the family will be ruined financially. Nakajima then burns down his foundry to force his children to move but instead they go to court and have him declared mentally incompetent. He is placed in an institution where he finds peace in the delusion that he has escaped to another planet and that the Earth has indeed suffered a nuclear holocaust. Provocative look at the fear of atomic warfare and radiation. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Distribution

Home Vision Cinema, c/o Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste. 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, URL: http://www.homevision.com

Available on VHS
Running time 105 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Family Ties, Meltdown

Screenplay

Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni

Cast

Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Eiko Miyoshi, Haruko Togo

Cinematography

Asakazu Nakai

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Music

Fumio Hayasaka