I Live in Fear (1955)

Toshirô Mifune: Kiichi Nakajima

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• Kiichi Nakajima : Please, I beg of you. Go to Brazil, I beg of you. All of you, as one family. You say I'm deluded. Maybe I am. But H-bombs really exist. War can break out any time. If it does, it will be too late; you can go nowhere then. We can still make it, let's flee why we can.

  [He points to the baby] 

  Kiichi Nakajima : I must spare him. I can't let an H-bomb get him.

  [He starts sniffling] 

  Kiichi Nakajima : I gave up hope once. I thought I wouldn't care about you. If I could save this baby at least, that's what I thought. But all of you are my flesh and blood. I can't leave you here! Please come with me!

  [He gets out a letter] 

  Kiichi Nakajima : Look, he's written from Brazil. He kindly writes to me, "Come at once. I'll arrange your citizenship. Come to me, and leave this hell. Everything will be fine." Even a stranger is kind to us. I beseech you, come with me to Brazil. Please, I beg of you, on my hands and knees!

  Toyo Nakajima : Please go with him. Father is begging you.

  [She starts crying] 

  Toyo Nakajima : I'm begging you, too. Please go with him. You know, he's always been right. Father's always been a good planner, planning for all of you. Let's go, Ichiro. Jiro, let's go. Let's go, Yoshiko. Say something! Why are you so silent?

  [Kiichi starts to get up. Sue stands up suddenly and clings to her father] 

  Sue Nakajima : I'll go with you, Father!

  [She sobs into Kiichi's clothes. Kiichi collapses. Sue kneels down and shakes him] 

  Sue Nakajima : Father! Father! Father! Father! Father!

• Kiichi Nakajima : I'm very glad you came. You're safe here. Have no fear. By the way, what happened to the Earth? Are many people still left behind there? Are there still many people there? That's not good. Not good at all. They better escape soon or they'll be sorry! Why don't they understand? They better hurry and come to this planet! They better hurry!

  [seeing the sun from his window] 

  Kiichi Nakajima : Is it burning? Oh! The Earth is burning! Oh, the Earth is burning! Oh, it's burning! It's burning! Oh! Oh! Oh! It's burning. The Earth has finally gone up in flames. Oh! Oh!

• Asako Kuribayashi : What's wrong?

  Kiichi Nakajima : I sent him to cash a promissory note for 200,000 yen.

  Asako Kuribayashi : That's like trusting a cat with milk.

• Kiichi Nakajima : I must tell you one thing, you and the others who ruled against me. I told you then I wasn't afraid of the bomb. But just look at me now! Can't you see? I'm out of my mind with fear! And it's you who made me like this! Thanks to you, there's nothing I can do. Nothing! I keep thinking about the H-bomb, but all I can do is think! And the more I think, the more restless I become. But there's nothing I can do! It's a living hell!

• Kiichi Nakajima : Everybody has to die, but I won't be murdered!

• Kiichi Nakajima : It was me. I set the fire. I set the fire. I set the fire.