I Live in Fear
7.3(124) 1955-11-22 103 minDrama
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.
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
WriterShinobu Hashimoto
WriterHideo Oguni
ProducerSōjirō Motoki
Original Music ComposerMasaru Satō
Cast & characters
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
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Ken Mitsuda
as Judge Araki
Atsushi Watanabe
as Factory Worker Ishida
Kiyomi Mizunoya
as Satoko
Gen Shimizu
as —
Toranosuke Ogawa
as Hori, the lawyer
Nobuo Nakamura
as Psychologist
Bokuzen Hidari
as Landowner
Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Factory Worker after Fire
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Akira Tani
as Chunky Jailbird
Kokuten Kōdō
as Workers' Older Family Member
