Madadayo
Mâdada yo
1993, Film, 134 min, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 70
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda
Cast
- Tatsuo Matsumura as Professor Hyakken Uchida
- Hisashi Igawa as Takayama
- George Tokoro as Amaki
- Masayuki Yui as Kiriyama
- Akira Terao as Sawamura
- Takeshi Kusaka as Dr. Kobayashi
- Asei Kobayashi as Rev. Kameyama
- Kyōko Kagawa as Professor's Wife
- Mitsuru Hirata as Tada
- Takao Zushi as Kitamura
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