When a wealthy foundry owner and bullying patriarch decides to move his entire family from Tokyo to Brazil to escape the nuclear holocaust which he fears is imminent his family tries to have him declared mentally incompetent... Made at the height of the Cold War when the superpowers were engaged in series of nuclear tests this blazing attack on complacency was one of the director's most deeply-felt but least commercially successful films. Nonetheless it deserves to be more widely
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At the height of the Cold War, ageing Japanese foundry owner Kiichi Nakajima decides that he and his entire family must emigrate to Brazil in order to find safety from potential nuclear attack. The rest of the family, unwilling to sell up and move, attempt to have Kiichi declared mentally incompetent. Akira Kurosawa, more renowned for period films like 'Rashomon' (1950) and 'Seven Samurai' (1954), directs this contemporary drama which is seen as his attack on the complacency of most of the world to the threat of the Cold War and the atomic bomb.
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