I Live In Fear
1955
A man who lives in Tokyo, who attempts to move his family to Brazil because of concerns about a nuclear holocaust. But his family think differently and try and get him committed. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. Read more
| Starring | Toshiro Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Minoru Chiaki |
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| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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I Live In Fear
A man who lives in Tokyo, who attempts to move his family to Brazil because of concerns about a nuclear holocaust. But his family think differently and try and get him committed. Japanese dialogue with English subtitles.
| Starring | Toshiro Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Minoru Chiaki |
|---|---|
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 39 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Mar 2005 Production year: 1955 |
| Format | DVD |
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Shot at the height of the Cold War and a mere decade after the atomic assault on Japan, Akira Kurosawa's drama about life under the shadow of the bomb was originally conceived as a satire and an uncertainty of tone fatally undermines its purpose. By having ageing industrialist Toshiro Mifune descend into dementia, his desire to escape the holocaust by relocating his sneering family to a Brazilian hideaway can too easily be dismissed as senile paranoia instead of prescient warning. However, muddled humanism aside, Kurosawa's command of alternating montage sequences and fluid long takes is exemplary.
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Made between Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood, this contemporary social problem movie is Kurosawa's least commercially... read more on Time Out
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Not one of the masters best
An old businessman is in dispute with the rest of his family as he wants to uproot from Tokyo and move to Brazil where he feels they would be safer from any future atomic bombs. His family think he has gone mad but are more concerned about the cost it would involve and loss of their inheritance. Although the film starts well and the dispute is being managed by a Family court where one of the appraisers starts to feel sympathy with the father, it slowly heads into melodrama where the father going to any extreme to make his wish come true.Although the sentiments here and of groups like CND may have had some basis at the time, the fact that their fears were unfounded means that this movie ends up more of a time capsule. Given the behaviour of his family, I'd have left them behind myself.
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Perhaps not the greatest Kurosawa but....
Any Kurosawa film is usually a safe bet and this is no exception. This film is of the 'Ikiru' type i.e. post war drama with an emphasis on social portrait. Whilst it doesn't match the brilliance of that film they both share excellent depictions of the bureaucratic maze that post-war Japanese society had become. This depiction however slows the film for its first 2/3s although I would urge viewers to persist as the film possesses one of the most poignant endings to any of Kurosawa's films.
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