I Live in Fear
1955 · 103 min
Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Written by Fumio Hayasaka, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Masao Shimizu.
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.
Critics 73% · audiences 75% · streaming on Criterion Channel