I Live in Fear

A haunting psychological study of an aging man's descent into nuclear paranoia, set against post-war Japan's collective anxiety, that questions the sanity of both obsession and denial.

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.