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Post war tension created by the threat of atomic war,
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This review is from: I Live in Fear [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Akira Kurowsawa's 'I Live in fear' is an excellent examination of the fear and tension created in post war Japan by the constant threat of atomic annihilation. The characters in this film are portrayed incredibly well. The central character played by Toshiro Mifune is excellent and immediately draws the viewer into a world of collapsing family values which he replaces with his terror of nuclear war.
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Akira Kurosawa,
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This review is from: I Live In Fear [1955] [DVD] (DVD)
An interesting oddity from Kurosawa - Mifune plays a character twice his age who is rapidly going mad. A small but detailed booklet is included. DVD is expensive though and it may be better to pick up the BFI 'Classic Kurosawa' boxset which includes this movie.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Nuclear Paranoia From A Master,
By Jerome Wilson - Published on Amazon.com
This 1955 release is one of those smaller Akira Kurosawa films that is overlooked in favor of his bigger films like "Rashomon" and "Seven Samurai" but it's still worth seeing. The great Toshiro Mifune plays an industrialist in post-World War II Japan who is slowly going mad with the notion that a nuclear war is coming and tries to convince his family (and his mistresses) to flee Japan with him. Mifune's obsessive portrayal is the stuff of great tragedy especially as he vainly pleads with his greedy family to leave and Takashi Shimura, the samurai leader in "Seven Samurai", is also effective as a counselor who tries to help straighten the mess out. The movie captures Japanese dread about the atom bomb, a subject Kurosawa would also treat in his masterpiece, "Ikiru", very well and with the greedy family closing in on a raving patriarch, brings to mind "King Lear", a tale the director would go back to many years later in "Ran". This is a small film from one of the world's great directors but a very good one.
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A heartbreaking film,
By J. Mullarkey - Published on Amazon.com
Forget "Ran" Kurowsawa did "King Lear" far better with a post-war Japan setting and adding the fear of nuclear testing into the story of a family business. Toshiro Mifuna was 35 when he played a 63-year old man fighting for his dignity against a family trying to have him declared incompetent. His perfomance is flawless. I grew up in a family business. I saw this film at 20 and then again at 42 and it unnerved me both times. Watch closely as the daughter-in-law moves from the margins to the center with her outrage at the old man's treatment by the family. I kid you not, this was one of Kurosawa's best.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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just must see,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
"Toshiro Mifune was the most logical of any other his movie." It will be when you watch the VHS in your house TV that you know this mean. And you may notice the fact you don't notice now. Very educational, however, has unique pathos with tear in my eyes.
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