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

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