Rent I Live in Fear (1955)
3.7 of 5 from 61 ratings
1h 39min
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- Synopsis:
When a wealthy foundry owner decides to move his entire family from Tokyo to Brazil to escape the nuclear holocaust which he fears is imminent, his family, afraid of losing their status and inheritance, tries to have him declared mentally incompetent. Made at the height of the Cold War, with the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still a recent memory, this blazing attack on complacency stemmed from the same H-Bomb paranoia that gave birth to the Godzilla films. Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune delivers an extraordinary performance, as does Takashi Shimura, who two years before had starred as the cancer-stricken clerk in Ikiru. I Live In Fear, though one of Kurosawa's least commercially successful films, was the picture he expressed himself proudest of having made. - Actors:
- Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi, Kyôko Aoyama, Haruko Tôgô, Noriko Sengoku, Akemi Negishi, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Kichijirô Ueda, Eijirô Tôno, Yutaka Sada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ken Mitsuda, Masao Shimizu
- Directors:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers:
- Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto
- Aka:
- Ikimono no kiroku
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide to: Akira Kurosawa
- Countries:
- Japan
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