I Live in Fear (1955)

7.3/10 103 min Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura

Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki

Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu

Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi

Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama

Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō

Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku

Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi

Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda

Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno

Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada

Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara

Okamoto

Atsushi Watanabe

Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya

Satoko

Gen Shimizu

Toranosuke Ogawa

Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura

Psychologist

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