I Live in Fear
UPC: Disc: E0DE-E9FD-B4D5-2A89 (DVD)
Region Coding: Region 1
Production Year: 1955
Rating: NR
Running Time: 103 min.
DVD Release: 1/15/2008
Case Type: THINpak
Video Formats: Full Frame 1.33:1
Disc Formats: Single Sided, Dual Layered
SRP: $0.00
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.

Genres
Drama



Studios
Toho
Media Companies: The Criterion Collection, Eclipse
Features
Scene Access
Subtitles
English
Audio Tracks
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono
Cast
Toshiro Mifune as Kiichi Nakajima
Takashi Shimura as Dr. Harada
Minoru Chiaki as Jiro Nakajima
Masao Shimizu as Takao Yamazaki
Eiko Miyoshi as Toyo Nakajima
Kyoko Aoyama as Sue Nakajima
Haruko Togo as Yoshi Yamazaki
Noriko Sengoku
Akemi Negishi
Yoichi Tachikawa
Kichijiro Ueda
Eijiro Tono
Yutaka Sada as Ichiro Nakajima
Kamatari Fujiwara as Okamato
Ken Mitsuda
Atsushi Watanabe
Kiyomi Mizunoya
Gen Shimizu
Toranosuke Ogawa
Crew
Direction:
Akira Kurosawa: Director
Writing:
Shinobu Hashimoto: Screenwriter
Akira Kurosawa: Screenwriter
Hideo Oguni: Screenwriter
Production:
Sojiro Motoki: Producer
Cinematography:
Asakazu Nakai: Cinematographer
Film Editing:
Chozo Obata: Film Editor
Music:
Fumio Hayasaka: Composer
Art:
Yoshiro Muraki: Production Designer