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I Live in Fear

7.3 103 mins Drama   1955
TOHO  
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa

Release Date: 22 Tue, Nov 1955

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.

Casts of I Live in Fear

Toshirō Mifune

as Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura

as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki

as Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu

as Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi

as Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama

as Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō

as Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku

as Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi

as Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa

as Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda

as Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno

as Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada

as Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara

as Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda

as Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe

as Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya

as Satoko

Toranosuke Ogawa

as Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura

as Psychologist

Bokuzen Hidari

as Landowner

Yoshio Tsuchiya

as Factory Worker after Fire

Akira Tani

as Chunky Jailbird

Kokuten Kōdō

as Workers' Older Family Member

Noriko Honma

as Worker family member

Kazuo Katō

as Susumu

Yoshiko Miyata

as Secretary Tamiya

Toyoko Okubo

as Susumu's wife Sumiko

Saoko Yonemura

as Taeko

Gorô Sakurai

as Factory worker

Senkichi Ōmura

as Skinny Jailbird

Haruo Nakajima

as Foundry employee (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai

as Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)

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