I Live in Fear : Record of a Living Being (Ikimono no kiroku)

Film Diary 2020 (78 movies items)

"31.1 "

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"Ikimono no kiroku (Akira Kurosawa, 1955) "

Ranking Movies Of: Akira Kurosawa (33 movies items)

"Rating LIFF: 7.35 "

Fantastic Films of the '50s (29 movies items)

"Directed by: Akira Kurosawa An aging, industrialist Japanese man becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family."

From The Superb To The Crap - Movies Seen In 2016 (284 movies items)

"This is an odd little curio from the Cold War era. I think it played a lot better back in the 1950s, as today many younger viewers won't be able to relate to the theme...it will all seem too weird and too tough to understand. Toshiro Mifune plays a man much older than he actually was - he had his hair whitened for the movie and he walks about hunched over like an old man. He suffers from a severe obsession - that Japan is going to be destroyed by a nuclear war. He insists as the family patriarch"