Madadayo

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.

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134 min

Cast

Tatsuo Matsumura

as Prof. Hyakken Uchida

Kyōko Kagawa

as Professor's Wife

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

Hidetaka Yoshioka

as Takayama's Son

Yoshitaka Zushi

as Neighbor

Mitsuru Hirata

as Tada

Noriko Honma

as Old Lady Holding a Cat

Shigeo Katō

as Stationmaster

Kōjirō Kusanagi

as Man Who Bought the Land

Utaroku Miyakoya

as Packhorse Driver

Kimihiro Reizei

as Murayama

Kinzō Sakura

as Policeman

Mieko Suzuki

as Fishmonger's Daughter

Tetsuo Yamashita

as Landlord

Takao Zushi

as Kitamura

Nobuto Okamoto

as Ota

Tetsu Watanabe

Norio Matsui

Akihiko Sugizaki

Shû Nakajima

Ryûjirô Oki

Tetsuya Ito

Masuo Amada

Minoru Hirano

Kazuhiko Kasai

Eiji Bandō

Masahiko Tanimura

Tomoko Otakara

Toshihiko Nakano

Director

Akira Kurosawa