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bf2jay88

The last scene struck me as hell...wow !

12 years 2 months ago

"Whenever I see him, I somehow feel oddly anxious, even though I’m the one who’s supposed to be sane. Is he crazy? Or are we, who can remain unperturbed in an insane world?"

A character-driven family drama about nuclear anxieties in 1950s Japan, I Live in Fear is a refreshingly modern but often overlooked masterpiece from Kurosawa, his favourite actors, and co-screenwriters Hashimoto Shinobu and Oguni Hideo at the height of their powers. Meditative, probing, moral, psychological, and yet thoroughly engrossing, it's a film that's unafraid to ask difficult questions and to delve into the psyche of the Japanese population of that era. A stunning, must-see film.

6 months ago

jacktrewin

masterpiece of acting, visuals, dialogue, emotion. everything

10 years 1 month ago

deckard.

mifune is out of this world. a once in a century actor.

2 years 1 month ago

Punisher

Btw, Mifune was 34 years old in this movie.
What a beast!

7 years 11 months ago

fonz

Either an irrational-rational fear or a rational-irrational fear.

What can even be said about this nearly forgotten Kurosawa-Mifune-Shimura collaboration? It captures a very real concern, that even sixty years later is still relevant.

I just came from a screening as a part of the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and as much as I want to write something intelligent of the film, I can't. The last time I felt so emotionally distraught was after Grave of the Fireflies. How dare those Japanese make such emotional powerful and poetic films!

This would make for a good double-bill with the original 1954 version of Gozilla.

9 years 9 months ago