103 minutos
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
Kiichi Nakajima
Takashi Shimura
Domestic Court Counselor Dr. Harada
Minoru Chiaki
Jiro Nakajima
Masao Shimizu
Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Eiko Miyoshi
Toyo Nakajima
Kyoko Aoyama
Sue Nakajima
Haruko Tōgō
Yoshi Nakajima
Noriko Sengoku
Kimie Nakajima
Akemi Negishi
Asako Kuribayashi
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Ryoichi Sayama
Kichijirō Ueda
Mr. Kuribayashi father
Eijirō Tōno
Old man from Brazil
Yutaka Sada
Ichiro Nakajima
Kamatari Fujiwara
Okamoto
Ken Mitsuda
Judge Araki
Atsushi Watanabe
Factory Worker Ishida
Kiyomi Mizunoya
Satoko
Gen Shimizu
Toranosuke Ogawa
Hori, the lawyer
Nobuo Nakamura
Psychologist
Bokuzen Hidari
Landowner
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Factory Worker after Fire
Akira Tani
Chunky Jailbird
Kokuten Kōdō
Workers' Older Family Member
Noriko Honma
Worker family member
Kazuo Katō
Susumu
Yoshiko Miyata
Secretary Tamiya
Toyoko Okubo
Susumu's wife Sumiko
Saoko Yonemura
Taeko
Gorô Sakurai
Factory worker
Senkichi Ōmura
Skinny Jailbird
Haruo Nakajima
Foundry employee (uncredited)
Takuzō Kumagai
Psychiatric nurse (uncredited)
