I Live in Fear
An aging factory owner consumed by nuclear paranoia fights to move his family to Brazil, but his escalating fear threatens to tear them apart as sanity and reality blur.
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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.
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Shot by Asakazu NakaiDesigned by Yoshiro Muraki
Also known as
- Bilanz eines Lebensde
- Ein Leben in Furchtde
- I Live in Fearen
- Vivre dans la peurfr
- Testimonianza di un essere viventeit
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Cast & Crew
40 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Toshiro Mifune
as Kiichi Nakajima
Takashi Shimura
as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
Minoru Chiaki
as Jiro Nakajima
Eiko Miyoshi
as Toyo Nakajima
Masao Shimizu
as Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Kyoko Aoyama
as Sue Nakajima
Haruko Togo
as Yoshi Nakajima
Noriko Sengoku
as Kimie Nakajima
Akemi Negishi
as Asako Kuribayashi
Hiroshi Tachikawa
as Ryoichi Sayama
Kichijiro Ueda
as Mr. Kuribayashi father
Eijiro Tono
as Old man from Brazil
Supporting cast
21Yutaka Sada
as Ichiro Nakajima
Kamatari Fujiwara
as Okamoto
Ken Mitsuda
as Judge Araki
Atsushi Watanabe
as Factory Worker Ishida
Kiyomi Mizunoya
as Satoko
Gen Shimizu
Toranosuke Ogawa
as Hori, the lawyer
Nobuo Nakamura
as Psychologist
Bokuzen Hidari
as Landowner
Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Factory Worker after Fire
Akira Tani
as Chunky Jailbird
Kokuten Kodo
as Workers' Older Family Member
Noriko Honma
as Worker family member
Kazuo Kato
as Susumu
Yoshiko Miyata
as Secretary Tamiya
Toyoko Okubo
as Susumu's wife Sumiko
Saoko Yonemura
as Taeko
Goro Sakurai
as Factory worker
Senkichi Omura
as Skinny Jailbird
Haruo Nakajima
as Foundry employee (uncredited)
Takuzo Kumagai
as Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)
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