In 1955, Akira Kurosawa delivered I Live in Fear, a captivating drama that grappled with existing in the wake of nuclear horrors.
The Big Picture In August 1945, America dropped a pair of bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The death toll from the ensuing bombs has been nearly impossible to calculate simply because of how enormously these bombs impacted these two locations, but an estimated 110,000 to 210,000 lives were lost in the first months after the attack. The horrors of America being the first and only country to utilize nuclear weapons in times of war didn’t just impact the deceased, of course.
I Live in Fear follows in the footsteps of Ikiru and Stray Dog in Kurosawa’s pantheon of modern cinematic works, with this particular feature focusing on a man named Kiichi Nakajima . There is only one thing on the mind of Nakajima: atomic bombs. Knowing now that the horrors that wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima are not only possible but are being dwarfed by ever-escalating advances in nuclear warfare, Nakajima is plagued by paranoia.
What Is Sanity in a Society Impacted By Nuclear Warfare? One of the most harrowing lines in I Live in Fear comes from Dr. Harada , the rare figure within this story who views Nakajima with total sympathy. At one point, this man turns to a trio of Nakajima’s relatives and points out that the man’s "only fault is going too far. But his anxiety about the bomb is something we all share…we just don't feel it quite as strongly.
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