Synopsis
Both the final film of this period in which Akira Kurosawa would directly wrestle with the demons of the Second World War and his most literal representation of living in an atomic age, the galvanizing I Live in Fear presents Toshiro Mifune as an elderly, stubborn businessman so fearful of a nuclear attack that he resolves to move his reluctant family to South America. With this mournful film, the director depicts a society emerging from the shadows but still terrorized by memories of the past and anxieties for the future.
Cast
| Kiichi Nakajima | Toshiro Mifune |
| Jiro Nakajima | Minoru Chiaki |
| Takao Yamazaki | Masao Shimizu |
| Toyo Nakajima | Eiko Miyoshi |
| Sue Nakajima | Kyoko Aoyama |
| Yoshi Yamazaki | Haruko Togo |
| Ichiro Nakajima | Yutaka Sata |
| Okamoto | Kamatari Fujiwara |
| Doctor Harada | Takashi Shimura |
Credits
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer | Shojiro Motoki |
| Screenplay | Shinobo Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni |
| Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
| Art director | Yoshiro Muraki |
| Music | Fumio Hayasaka |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 7:
Postwar Kurosawa
by
Jan 14, 2008
As Japan was coming out of World War II, Akira Kurosawa was coming into his own as a filmmaker. And this was hardly a coincidence: though he had made a name for himself as a promising popular craftsman at Toho Studios during the war, Kurosawa later said he didn’t feel he could express himself . . .
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