I Live in Fear

Infobox_Film
name = I Live in Fear

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director = Akira Kurosawa
producer = Sojiro Motoki
writer = Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Fumio Hayasaka
Hideo Oguni
starring = Toshirō Mifune
Takashi Shimura
distributor = Toho Company Ltd.
released = November 22, 1955 | runtime = 113 minutes
country = Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
music = Masaru Sato
Fumio Hayasaka
awards =
imdb_id = 0048198
|nihongo|"I Live In Fear"|生きものの記録|"Ikimono no kiroku"|aka "Record of a Living Being" or "What the Birds Knew" is a 1955 Japanese film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was co-written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumio Hayasaka, and Hideo Oguni.

The film stars Kurosawa regulars Toshirō Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It is in black-and-white and runs 113 minutes.

Cast

*Kiichi Nakajima -- Toshiro Mifune
*Dr. Harada -- Takashi Shimura
*Jiro Nakajima -- Minoru Chiaki
*Toyo Nakajima -- Eiko Miyoshi
*Sue Nakajima -- Kyoko Aoyama
*Yoki Nakajima -- Haruko Togo
*Kimie Nakajima -- Noriko Sengoku

Plot

Kiichi Nakajima (Toshirō Mifune), an elderly foundry owner convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. [cite web
url=http://www.slate.com/id/2183029/
title=I Live in Fear: What Kurosawa's forgotten film about the bomb captures about post-9/11 America
first=Fred
last=Kaplan
publisher=Slate
date=2008-01-29] His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada (Takashi Shimura), a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.

References

External links

* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_live_in_fear/ "I Live in Fear"] at Rotten Tomatoes
*imdb title|id=0048198|title=I Live in Fear
* " [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1955/ce004020.htm I Live in Fear] " ja icon at the Japanese Movie Database
* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:24072~C "I Live in Fear"] at Allmovie