I Live in Fear (1955)
Ikimono no kiroku
103 min
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.
- Release date
- November 22, 1955
- Country of origin
- Japan
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Cast
- 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
- Kyōko Aoyama as Sue Nakajima
- Haruko Tôgô 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
- Gen Shimizu
- 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 Katô as Susumu
- Yoshiko Miyata as Secretary Tamiya
Crew
- Akira Kurosawa · Director
- Shinobu Hashimoto · Writer
- Fumio Hayasaka · Writer
- Akira Kurosawa · Writer
- Hideo Oguni · Writer
- Sōjirō Motoki · Producer
- Asakazu Nakai · Cinematographer
- Yoshirô Muraki · Production designer