I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film)
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- Tokyo: Kurosawa Productions, 1955
Tokyo: Kurosawa Productions, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. Title in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese.
An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in a nuclear war, and grows obsessed with the idea of moving his family to a rural farm in Brazil. Director Akira Kurosawa's final film collaboration with longtime composer Fumio Hayasaka, made shortly before Hayasaka's death in 1955 of tuberculosis.
White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Approximately 73 leaves, with last page of text numbered e-30. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned, wrapper Very Good, lightly foxed, with wear and toning on the spine.
An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in a nuclear war, and grows obsessed with the idea of moving his family to a rural farm in Brazil. Director Akira Kurosawa's final film collaboration with longtime composer Fumio Hayasaka, made shortly before Hayasaka's death in 1955 of tuberculosis.
White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Approximately 73 leaves, with last page of text numbered e-30. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned, wrapper Very Good, lightly foxed, with wear and toning on the spine.