I Live in Fear
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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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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
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CinemaSerf
@Geronimo1967November 14, 2022
This is a far cry from the usual Kurosawa/Mifune effort; indeed in this, Toshirô Mifune is almost unrecognisable. No brave, honourable Samurai this time, but an elderly foundry-owner who is paranoid about the potential impact of nuclear war on his family. To this end, he is determined to sell up and…
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