Toshirō Mifune

Takashi Shimura

Minoru Chiaki

Masao Shimizu

Eiko Miyoshi

Kyoko Aoyama

Haruko Tōgō

Noriko Sengoku

Akemi Negishi

Hiroshi Tachikawa

Kichijirō Ueda

Eijirō Tōno

Yutaka Sada

Kamatari Fujiwara

Ken Mitsuda

Atsushi Watanabe

Kiyomi Mizunoya

Gen Shimizu

Toranosuke Ogawa

Nobuo Nakamura

Bokuzen Hidari

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Akira Tani

Kokuten Kōdō

Noriko Honma

Kazuo Kato

Yoshiko Miyata

Toyoko Okubo

Saoko Yonemura

Gorô Sakurai

Senkichi Ōmura

Haruo Nakajima

Takuzō Kumagai

Hideo Oguni

Masaru Satō

Sōjirō Motoki

Fumio Hayasaka

Akira Kurosawa

Shinobu Hashimoto

Asakazu Nakai

Miyuki Suzuki

Yoshirō Muraki

Drama

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I Live in Fear

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This is a far cry from the usual Kurosawa/Mifune effort; indeed in this, Toshirô Mifune is almost unrecognisable. No brave, honourable Samurai this time, but an elderly foundry-owner who is paranoid about the potential impact of nuclear war on his family. To this end, he is determined to sell up and relocate his family to Brazil. The family don't fancy this idea much and try to have him certified. What ensues is a battle of wills, priorities and personalities set against a traditional set of Japanese family structures and values. Viewed, largely, from the perspective of independent arbiter "Dr. Harada" (Takashi Shimura) who has been drafted in to help settle the matter amicably; we visit the perfectly valid (though frequently selfish) approaches taken by both Mifune and his family - who have plenty of scores to settle amongst themselves - as the film tries to establish the best course of action to satisfy both parties. There is quite an interesting scene mid-way through when at the height of their dispute, the old man returns to the court armed with bottles of pop which he has bought for his family to help combat the unrelenting heat, indicating that he clearly still cares greatly for his family, even though they are at loggerheads... and for me, that rather sums the whole thing up - there isn't necessarily a right or wrong solution; it's about individuality and choice but ultimately the happiness of others; and Mifune is great. I found the last fifteen minutes quite sad, perhaps building on the old adage about families and money. Japan, for a good while, struggled to reconcile itself to the realities of a post-Hiroshima threat, so from an observer some 6,000 miles away it can be hard to understand just how viscerally the danger of repetition was taken by many - this film is a thought provoking, emotional - and, at times humorous, glimpse into that fear.

I Live in Fear

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