

I Live in Fear
1 hour 43 minutes1955-11-22
7.3
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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.
Cast

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

Kichijirō Ueda
Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno
Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada
Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara
Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda
Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe
Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya
Satoko

Gen Shimizu

Toranosuke Ogawa
Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura
Psychologist

Bokuzen Hidari
Landowner

Yoshio Tsuchiya
Factory Worker after Fire

Akira Tani
Chunky Jailbird

Kokuten Kōdō
Workers' Older Family Member

Noriko Honma
Worker family member

Kazuo Katō
Susumu

Yoshiko Miyata
Secretary Tamiya

Toyoko Okubo
Susumu's wife Sumiko

Saoko Yonemura
Taeko

Gorô Sakurai
Factory worker

Senkichi Ōmura
Skinny Jailbird

Haruo Nakajima
Foundry employee (uncredited)
