I Live in Fear

Name: I Live in Fear
Genre: Drama
Released: 1955-11-22
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Masao Shimizu, Eiko Miyoshi

Criterion Channel

7.3(118 votes)

1955

1h 43m

Drama

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Overview

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.