I LIVE IN FEAR in 35mm
Special Features: Introduction by Michael Jeck on Aug. 7
[IKIMONO NO KIROKU] [生きものの記録]
Obsessed with his fear of nuclear annihilation, aging industrialist Kiichi Nakajima (Toshirô Mifune) resolves to move his entire family — wife, children and mistresses — to a farm in Brazil. Concerned about his mental health, not to mention the estate, the family takes their patriarch to court, where counselor Dr. Harada (Takashi Shimura) hears both sides. Made just 10 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Akira Kurosawa's film is a remarkable psychological portrait of post-war Japan in a time of mounting Cold War anxiety. "One of Kurosawa's most underrated … [and] among the most memorable: eerie, troubling and haunting." – Jonathan Rosenbaum. DIR Akira Kurosawa; SCR Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni; PROD Sôjirô Motoki. Japan, 1955, b&w, 103 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
About Michael Jeck
Michael Jeck was the film programmer of the AFI Theater at the Kennedy Center for a decade, and for the first years of the AFI Silver Theatre. His company R5/S8 Presents premiered the uncut version of Akira Kurosawa's THE HIDDEN FORTRESS and relaunched Kihachi Okamoto's ZATOICHI MEETS YOJIMBO. He has done audio commentaries for The Criterion Collection editions of SEVEN SAMURAI and THRONE OF BLOOD, taught a class on Japanese Cinema for 12 years at George Mason University and for 30 years has written the calendar notes for the repertory programs at New York City's famed Film Forum.
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Opening Date: Sunday, August 07, 2022
Genre: Drama