I Live in Fear
Akira Kurosawa / JP, 1955 / 103 min.
A single-minded Japanese businessman is so afraid of an atomic attack that he wants to move to Brazil with his family. Kurosawa shot his film a mere decade after the atrocities in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some 80 years ago.
Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa's favourite actor, plays the aging Japanese industrialist Nakajima, who is so worried about the hydrogen bomb that he decides to sell his foundry and move his whole family to Brazil, far from the radioactive fallout caused by nuclear warfare between the superpowers. Nakajima’s sons don’t want to move as this would make them lose their inheritance. Nakajima doesn’t understand why no one feels the danger as keenly as he does and so begins his descent into madness.
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Director
Akira Kurosawa
Production year
1955
Country
JP
Original title
Ikimono no kiroku
Length
103 min.
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
ENG
Format
35mm
Part of
Akira Kurosawa
After an absence of more than 30 years, Eye is bringing the films of one of Japan’s greatest filmmakers, Akira Kurosawa, to the big screen again, some in digitally restored versions. In his films, Kurosawa blends Japanese history and culture with literary and cinematic influences from the West.
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