IKIMONO NO KIROKU (Original title)SI LES OISEAUX SAVAIENT (Alternative title)I LIVE IN FEAR (Alternative title)RECORD OF A LIVING BEING (Alternative title)
Date: 1955 (Copyright)Country: JapanDirector: Akira Kurosawa
Production company billing: [restoration] ©1955. Toho Co., Ltd.
Synopsis: Drama set in post-war Tokyo. Kiichi Nakajima is a wealthy industrialist who is obsessed with a fear that nuclear holocaust is imminent. He attempts to persuade his family to leave Japan and move to Brazil; however his family decide to have him declared mentally incompetent.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 22 November 1955Country: JapanRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10180 FeetLanguage: Japanese
Date: 25 January 1967Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 104 mins Length: 9311 FeetDialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: English
Date: October 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Dialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 1955 (Copyright)Country: JapanDirector: Akira Kurosawa
Production company billing: [restoration] ©1955. Toho Co., Ltd.
Synopsis: Drama set in post-war Tokyo. Kiichi Nakajima is a wealthy industrialist who is obsessed with a fear that nuclear holocaust is imminent. He attempts to persuade his family to leave Japan and move to Brazil; however his family decide to have him declared mentally incompetent.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 22 November 1955Country: JapanRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10180 FeetLanguage: Japanese
Date: 25 January 1967Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 104 mins Length: 9311 FeetDialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: English
Date: October 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 99 mins Dialogue (original): Japanese / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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©: Toho Co. Ltd., Production Company: Toho Co. Ltd., Producer: Sojiro Motoki, Assistant Director: Sadanobu Marubayashi, Assistant Director: Samaji Nonagase, Assistant Director: Yasuyoshi Tajitsu, Assistant Director: Ken Sano, Takao Nakamura, Screenplay: Shinobu Hashimoto, Screenplay: Hideo Oguni, Screenplay: Akira Kurosawa, Director of Photography: Asakazu Nakai, Lighting: Kuichiro Kishida, Editor: Chozo Obata, Art Director: Yoshiro Muraki, Music: Fumio Hayasaka, Music Completed by: Masaru Sato, Sound Recording: Fumio Yanoguchi, Sound Effects: Ichiro Minawa
Cast
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Toshiro Mifune (Kiichi Nakajima), Eiko Miyoshi (Toyo Nakajima), Yutaka Sada (Ichiro Nakajima), Minoru Chiaki (Jiro Nakajima), Haruko Togo (Yoshi Nakajima), Kyoko Aoyama (Sué Nakajima), Kiyomi Mizunoya (Kiichi's first mistress), Saoko Yonemura (Taeko, daughter of first mistress), Akemi Negishi (Asako, Kiichi's current mistress), Kichijiro Ueda (Asako's father), Masao Shimizu (Yamakazi, Yoshi's husband), Noriko Sengoku (Kimie, Ichiro's wife), Yôichi Tachikawa (Ryoichi), Takashi Shimura (Dr Harada), Kazuo Kato (Susumu Harada), Eijirô Tono (old man from Brazil), Ken Mitsuda (Araki, judge), Toranosuke Ogawa (Hori, lawyer), Kamatari Fujiwara (Okamoto), Nobuo Nakamura (psychiatrist), Bokuzen Hidari (farmer)