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• Actors: Akemi Negishi, Eijirô Tono, Eiko Miyoshi, Haruko Togo, Hiroshi Tachikawa
• Directors: Akira Kurosawa
• Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 4 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: AV Channel
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000HKH01A
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #201,624 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, SYNOPSIS: 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. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival,

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5.0 out of 5 stars A towering masterpiece!, November 5, 2007

By	Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Chronicle of an alive being explores the dramatis personae and brutal generational clash among the father of family and the rest of his family, when, product of the horrid shock of the Atomic bomb and the induced radiations, induce him to migrate to Brazil, although the rest of his family does not agree with him.

Victor Hugo affirmed the genius was always excessive and part of the genius of Akira Kurosawa must be seen under thus perspective.

A mature film loaded of dramatic intensity.

5.0 out of 5 stars A heartbreaking film, December 22, 2006

By	J. Mullarkey - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Forget "Ran" Kurowsawa did "King Lear" far better with a post-war Japan setting and adding the fear of nuclear testing into the story of a family business. Toshiro Mifuna was 35 when he played a 63-year old man fighting for his dignity against a family trying to have him declared incompetent. His perfomance is flawless. I grew up in a family business. I saw this film at 20 and then again at 42 and it unnerved me both times. Watch closely as the daughter-in-law moves from the margins to the center with her outrage at the old man's treatment by the family. I kid you not, this was one of Kurosawa's best.