I Live in Fear
1955 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I Live in Fear (Japanese: 生きものの記録, Hepburn: Ikimono no Kiroku, lit. 'Record of a Living Being') is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, produced by Sōjirō Motoki, and co-written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Hideo Oguni.[2] The film is about an elderly Japanese factory owner so terrified of the prospect of a nuclear attack that he becomes determined to move his entire extended family to what he imagines is the safety of a farm in Brazil.
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Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
Written by | Shinobu Hashimoto Akira Kurosawa Hideo Oguni |
Produced by | Sōjirō Motoki |
Starring | Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura |
Cinematography | Asakazu Nakai |
Music by | Fumio Hayasaka |
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Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Budget | ¥130 million[1] |
The film stars Kurosawa regulars Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, and is the director's last with composer Fumio Hayasaka, who died while working on it. It is in black-and-white and runs 103 minutes. The film was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.[3]