I live in fear Ikimono no kiroku

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Title:

I live in fear Ikimono no kiroku

Author:

Motoki, Sōjirō.

Publication Information:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Series:

Postwar Kurosawa

Eclipse series ; 7

Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Series 7, Postwar Kurosawa.

Summary:

An elderly and wealthy industrialist is driven to madness over fears of a nuclear attack. In a futile attempt to save his family he pressures them to leave Japan and move to the rain forest in Brazil where he believes they will be safe. His family, complacent and cynical, is outraged and move to have him declared insane.

General Note:

Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1955.

A foreign film (Japan).

Language:

Japanese

Subject Term:

Nuclear weapons -- Drama.

Nuclear warfare -- Drama.

Paranoia -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.