Madadayo
Film19932h 14mReleased
DramaComedy
Not rated
Where to watch
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Language
- Japanese
- Released
- 1993-04-17
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
Community score
7.3136 votes on TMDB
Confidence
Rating weighted by how many people voted
6.7
The story
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.
Cast
- Tatsuo MatsumuraProf. Hyakken Uchida
- Kyōko KagawaProfessor's Wife
- Hisashi IgawaTakayama
- George TokoroAmaki
- Masayuki YuiKiriyama
- Akira TeraoSawamura
- Takeshi KusakaDr. Kobayashi
- Asei KobayashiRev. Kameyama
- Hidetaka YoshiokaTakayama's Son
- Yoshitaka ZushiNeighbor
