
Hanging Garden(2005)
On the surface, the Kyobashis appear to be a happy family. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.


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.

Toshirō Mifune
Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura
Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki
Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu
Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Eiko Miyoshi
Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama
Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō
Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku
Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi
Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa
Ryoichi Sayama
I Live in Fear is a drama film released in 1955 exploring themes of obsession, paranoia, psychiatric hospital, psychiatrist, foundry, post war japan. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, it stars Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki. 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.
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