I Live in Fear

I Live in Fear

1955•1h 43m•7.3/10

Drama

Ratings

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7.3/10(118)

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.

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Production

TOHO

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Toshirō Mifune

Toshirō Mifune

Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura

Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki

Minoru Chiaki

Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu

Masao Shimizu

Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi

Eiko Miyoshi

Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama

Kyoko Aoyama

Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō

Haruko Tōgō

Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku

Noriko Sengoku

Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi

Akemi Negishi

Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda

Kichijirō Ueda

Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno

Eijirō Tōno

Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada

Yutaka Sada

Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara

Kamatari Fujiwara

Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda

Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe

Atsushi Watanabe

Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya

Kiyomi Mizunoya

Satoko

Gen Shimizu

Gen Shimizu

Toranosuke Ogawa

Toranosuke Ogawa

Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura

Nobuo Nakamura

Psychologist

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