I Live in Fear

AKA:

Record of a Living Being

What the Birds Knew

Ikimono No Kiroku

Release Date:

Nov 22, 1955

Running Time:

1:45

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Cast:

Toshirô Mifune	Kiichi Nakajima
Eiko Miyoshi	Toyo
Togo Haruko	Yoki Nakajima
Masao Shimizu	Yamazaki, Yoshi's Husband
Yutaka Sada	Ichiro
Noriko Senooku	Kimie Nakajima
Minoru Chiaki	Jiro
Kyoko Aoyama	Sue Nakajima
Akemi Negishi	Asako, the Mistress
Kichijiro Ueda	Mr. Kuribayashi father
Yoichi Tachikawa
Takashi Shimura	Harada
Ken Mitsuda	Araki, the Judge
Toranuosuke Ogawa	Hori, the lawyer
Eijiro Tono	Old man from Brazil
Kamatari Fujiwara	Okamoto
Nobuo Nakamura	Psychiatrist

Producers:

Sojiro Motoki

Writers:

Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni

Language:

English

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``I Live in Fear'' is an expressive, caustic, portrait of madness. Toshiro Mifune plays an aging industrialist driven to madness over fears of a nuclear attack. The most frightening aspect of Kurosawa's film is not the threat of nuclear annihilation, but the proliferation of man's inhumanity and greed, expressed by the family's zeal to commit their father and keep their inheritances intact.

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