‘Akira Kurosawa’s I Live in Fear (1955) is one of the director’s lesser-known films and the last of the few that deals directly with the question of nuclear threat as well as its reality. The central character’s paranoia at one point leads him to mistake rays of sunlight for the onset of an atomic attack, a moment that resonates deeply with the exploration of apocalypticism and the everyday in The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low. Kurosawa’s haunting, beautiful, disturbing film forces us to never shy away from the social and the human, especially when it’s confronted with one of the most inhuman acts imaginable.’
– Gray Wielebinski