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

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