Drama
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.
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Written by
Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Toshirō Mifune
Kiichi Nakajima
Akemi Negishi
Asako Kuribayashi
Eijirō Tōno
Old man from Brazil
Kokuten Kōdō
Workers' Older Family Member
Eiko Miyoshi
Toyo Nakajima
Atsushi Watanabe
Factory Worker Ishida
Gen Shimizu
Toranosuke Ogawa
Hori, the lawyer
Senkichi Ōmura
Skinny Jailbird
Takashi Shimura
Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
Haruko Tōgō
Yoshi Nakajima
Kazuo Katō
Susumu
Takuzō Kumagai
Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)
Kyoko Aoyama
Sue Nakajima
Minoru Chiaki
Jiro Nakajima
Noriko Sengoku
Kimie Nakajima
Kamatari Fujiwara
Okamoto
Masao Shimizu
Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Bokuzen Hidari
Landowner
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Factory Worker after Fire
Kichijirō Ueda
Mr. Kuribayashi father
Nobuo Nakamura
Psychologist
Haruo Nakajima
Foundry employee (uncredited)
Noriko Honma
Worker family member
Yutaka Sada
Ichiro Nakajima
Kiyomi Mizunoya
Satoko
Yoshiko Miyata
Secretary Tamiya
Toyoko Okubo
Susumu's wife Sumiko
Saoko Yonemura
Taeko
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Ryoichi Sayama
Ken Mitsuda
Judge Araki
Akira Tani
Chunky Jailbird
Gorô Sakurai
Factory worker

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