Record of a Living Being

Plot

When an elderly, wealthy man decides that nuclear holocaust is eminent in his country, he decides to move his family to Brazil at all costs--a place which, for some mysterious reason, he believes to be safe. His family refuses to move because they fear that the move will jeopardize their financial well-being. Nakajima burns down his foundry to force them to go to Brazil but, instead, they go to the courts and have him declared mentally incompetent. After several more increasingly irrational acts, he is finally placed in a mental asylum, where he sits staring at the sun, believing that he is on another planet and the sun is the raging inferno created by the Earth when it went up in the nuclear holocaust--vindicating his actions. A strong indictment against the inherent evils of nuclear warfare, it is also the story of a man's love and dedication to his family in the face of his own fears and endangerment. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi

Cast

• Toshiro Mifune - Kiichi Nakajima
• Eiko Miyoshi - Toyo Nakajima
• Masao Shimizu - Takao Yamazaki
• Yutaka Sada - Ichiro Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama - Sue Nakajima; Akemi Negishi - Asako Kuribayashi; Kichijiro Ueda - Asako's father; Yoichi Tachikawa - Ryoichi Suyama; Toranosuke Ogawa - Hori, the lawyer; Eijiro Tono - Old man from Brazil; Kamatari Fujiwara - Okamoto; Nobuo Nakamura - Psychiatrist; Minoru Chiaki - Jiro Nakajima; Kazuo Kato - Susumu, his son; Kiyomi Mizunoya - Kiichi's first mistress; Noriko Sengoku - Kimie, Ichiro's wife; Takashi Shimura - Harada; Haruko Togo - Yoshi Yamazaki; Saoko Yonemura - Taeko, her daughter; Ken Mitsuda - Araki, the judge

Credit

Yoshiro Muraki - Art Director, Akira Kurosawa - Director, Fumio Hayasaka - Composer (Music Score), Masaru Sato - Composer (Music Score), Shinobu Muraki - Production Designer, Asakazu Nakai - Cinematographer, Shojiro Motoki - Producer, Akira Kurosawa - Screenwriter, Hideo Oguni - Screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto - Screenwriter

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