Synopsis
An elderly foundry owner, terrified of nuclear war, tries to move his whole family to Brazil, and his children go to court to have him declared incompetent; Toshiro Mifune in Kurosawa's 1955 drama.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 103 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Multi-layered anti-nuclear weapon film · Erik Karlsson · 2024-08-04
English subtitles A film that is undoubtedly a statement against the proliferation of nuclear weapons, but is also a complex psychological examination of the mass psychology of a people who, just ten years before, were subjected to the horrors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. With that said, this film moves in a very personal way, asking questions about whether one is truly paranoid if they fear the bomb, or if instead one is crazy because they continue to live life as if there is no threat. The story is surprisingly complex with overlapping conflicts beyond the nuclear question - a…
