I Live in Fear PG

To mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs, this talk will explore the presence of 'the Bomb' in Japanese post-war cinema. The continued nuclear menace of the Cold War were famously embodied in the science fiction classic Godzilla (1954), but the legacy of the bomb also permeates the films of Akira Kurosawa. Kurosawa films depicted the threat of the bomb in symbolic and allegorical.

With introductory talk by Dr Jonathan Rayner, University of Sheffield followed by a screening of I Live in Fear, shown on 35mm film