I Live in Fear
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| 生きものの記録 I Live in Fear |
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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Produced by | Sojiro Motoki |
| Written by | Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto Fumio Hayasaka Hideo Oguni |
| Starring | Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura |
| Music by | Masaru Sato Fumio Hayasaka |
| Distributed by | Toho Company Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | 22 November 1955 |
| Running time | 113 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ? |
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I Live In Fear (aka Record of a Living Being, aka What the Birds Knew) is the English title of the 1955 Japanese film Ikimono no kiroku (生きものの記録), written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was co-written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumio Hayasaka, and Hideo Oguni.
The film stars Kurosawa regulars Toshirô Mifune and Takashi Shimura. It is in black-and-white and runs 113 minutes.
[edit] Plot
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Kiichi Nakajima (Toshirô Mifune), an elderly foundry owner convinced that Japan will be wiped out in an imminent nuclear war, resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada (Takashi Shimura), a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.
[edit] External links
- Ikimono no Kiroku at the Internet Movie Database
- Record of a Living Being at All Movie Guide
- Ikimono no Kiroku at Movies Unlimited
- I Live in Fear at Rotten Tomatoes
- I Live in Fear at MovieMartyr.com
- I Live in Fear at DVD Times
- Image of I Live in Fear's poster
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| Japanese Cinema |  |
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| Films directed by Akira Kurosawa | ||
| 1940s | Sanshiro Sugata | The Most Beautiful | Sanshiro Sugata Part II | The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail | Those Who Make Tomorrow | No Regrets for Our Youth | One Wonderful Sunday | Drunken Angel | The Quiet Duel | Stray Dog | |
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| 1950s | Scandal | Rashomon | The Idiot | Ikiru | Seven Samurai | I Live in Fear | Throne of Blood | The Lower Depths | The Hidden Fortress | |
| 1960s | The Bad Sleep Well | Yojimbo | Sanjuro | High and Low | Red Beard | |
| 1970s | Dodesukaden | Dersu Uzala | |
| 1980s | Kagemusha | Ran | |
| 1990s | Dreams | Rhapsody in August | Madadayo | |
