

22/11/1955
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.

Toshirō Mifune
as Kiichi Nakajima

Takashi Shimura
as Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada

Minoru Chiaki
as Jiro Nakajima

Masao Shimizu
as Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband

Eiko Miyoshi
as Toyo Nakajima

Kyoko Aoyama
as Sue Nakajima

Haruko Tōgō
as Yoshi Nakajima

Noriko Sengoku
as Kimie Nakajima

Akemi Negishi
as Asako Kuribayashi

Hiroshi Tachikawa
as Ryoichi Sayama

Kichijirō Ueda
as Mr. Kuribayashi father

Eijirō Tōno
as Old man from Brazil

Yutaka Sada
as Ichiro Nakajima

Kamatari Fujiwara
as Okamoto

Ken Mitsuda
as Judge Araki

Atsushi Watanabe
as Factory Worker Ishida

Kiyomi Mizunoya
as Satoko

Gen Shimizu
as

Toranosuke Ogawa
as Hori, the lawyer

Nobuo Nakamura
as Psychologist

Bokuzen Hidari
as Landowner

Yoshio Tsuchiya
as Factory Worker after Fire

Akira Tani
as Chunky Jailbird

Kokuten Kōdō
as Workers' Older Family Member

Noriko Honma
as Worker family member

Kazuo Katō
as Susumu

Yoshiko Miyata
as Secretary Tamiya

Toyoko Okubo
as Susumu's wife Sumiko

Saoko Yonemura
as Taeko

Gorô Sakurai
as Factory worker

Senkichi Ōmura
as Skinny Jailbird

Haruo Nakajima
as Foundry employee (uncredited)

Takuzō Kumagai
as Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)
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