I Live in Fear (1955) on Netflix
Terrified of a nuclear war reaching Japan, the foundry owner Kiichi Nakajima resolves to move his whole family to Brazil. His three oldest children want him ruled incompetent.
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Plot summary
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that a nuclear attack will kill him and his loved ones unless they leave Japan, and he decides to move the family to Brazil. His wife Toyo and the four children of their marriage, his three illegitimate children and two surviving mistresses are all meant to go. Nobody else wants to. His three oldest children persuade his wife to try to have him ruled incompetent, and he is brought before a panel of three arbitrators that includes Dr. Harada, a dentist who volunteers with the family court.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Live in Fear (1955)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The plot of I Live in Fear came from a conversation Akira Kurosawa had with composer Fumio Hayasaka about nuclear weapons in the wake of the 1954 H-bomb test accident.
- I Live in Fear was the last film for composer Fumio Hayasaka, who died of tuberculosis in 1955; he had been director Akira Kurosawa's close friend since Drunken Angel in 1948.
