Films involving Mental Illness

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Title	Record of a Living Being (1955)
Alternative/Original Title	I Live in Fear
Disability	Mental
Country	Japan
Length	105
Genre	Drama
Rating	?
Director	Akira Kurosawa
Cast	Toshiro Mifune Minoru Chiaki Kyoko Aoyama
Notes	B&W An old man believes that Japan will again be hit with nuclear bombs. He decides to take his family to Brazil. But they are happy with their well-to-do lifestyle and don't want to go. So he burns down his foundry the source of their wealth. His family have him declared mentally incompetent and later committed to a mental hospital. In the hospital his gaze is fixated on the sun believing it to be the earth in flames and he on another planet. http://avclub.theonion.com/reviews/cinema/cinema_i/iliveinfear01.html

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