I Live in Fear

1955 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 103 min · drama film

★ 7.3/10 · 128 ratings on TMDB

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.