I Live in Fear (1955)

19551h 43mdir. Akira KurosawaJapaneseJapandrama film

With Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ken Mitsuda, Masao Shimizu, Noriko Sengoku, Akemi Negishi

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

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I Live in Fear (Japanese: 生きものの記録, Hepburn: Ikimono no Kiroku; lit. 'Record of a Living Being') is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, produced by Sōjirō Motoki, and co-written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni. The film is about an elderly Japanese factory owner so terrified of the prospect of a nuclear attack that he becomes determined to move his entire extended family to what he imagines is the safety of a farm in Brazil.

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