I Live in Fear (1955)
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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Toshirō Mifune as Kiichi Nakajima |
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Takashi Shimura as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada |
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Minoru Chiaki as Jiro Nakajima |
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Masao Shimizu as Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband |
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Eiko Miyoshi as Toyo Nakajima |
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Kyoko Aoyama as Sue Nakajima |
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Haruko Tōgō as Yoshi Nakajima |
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Noriko Sengoku as Kimie Nakajima |
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Akemi Negishi as Asako Kuribayashi |
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Hiroshi Tachikawa as Ryoichi Sayama |
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Kichijirō Ueda as Mr. Kuribayashi father |
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Eijirō Tōno as Old man from Brazil |
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Yutaka Sada as Ichiro Nakajima |
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Kamatari Fujiwara as Okamoto |
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Ken Mitsuda as Judge Araki |
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Atsushi Watanabe as Factory Worker Ishida |
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Kiyomi Mizunoya as Satoko |
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Gen Shimizu as |
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Toranosuke Ogawa as Hori, the lawyer |
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Nobuo Nakamura as Psychologist |
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Bokuzen Hidari as Landowner |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya as Factory Worker after Fire |
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Akira Tani as Chunky Jailbird |
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Kokuten Kōdō as Workers' Older Family Member |
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Noriko Honma as Worker family member |
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Kazuo Katō as Susumu |
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Yoshiko Miyata as Secretary Tamiya |
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Toyoko Okubo as Susumu's wife Sumiko |
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Saoko Yonemura as Taeko |
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Gorô Sakurai as Factory worker |
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Senkichi Ōmura as Skinny Jailbird |
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Haruo Nakajima as Foundry employee (uncredited) |
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Takuzō Kumagai as Psychiatric nurse (uncredited) |
| Writing | Hideo Oguni | Writer |
| Sound | Masaru Satō | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Sōjirō Motoki | Producer |
| Writing | Fumio Hayasaka | Story |
| Directing | Akira Kurosawa | Director |
| Writing | Shinobu Hashimoto | Writer |
| Writing | Akira Kurosawa | Story |
| Camera | Asakazu Nakai | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Miyuki Suzuki | Costume Design |
| Art | Yoshirō Muraki | Production Design |