Trivia / I Live In Fear

• Box Office Bomb: The first Kurosawa film to lose money at the box office.
• Dueling Movies: Toho produced two movies dealing with Japanese anxiety over nuclear weapons concurrently. As noted above, I Live in Fear was a box office bomb. The other one, Godzilla, did much better.
• Production Posse: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Bokuzen Hidari, Minoru Chiaki and Eijiro Tono are all among the cast.