Madadayo
- Released on
Drama, Comedy
•- Runtime
- 134 mins
(126 votes)
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.
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 Matsumura
- Kyōko Kagawa
- Hisashi Igawa
- George Tokoro
- Masayuki Yui
- Akira Terao
- Takeshi Kusaka
- Asei Kobayashi
- Hidetaka Yoshioka
- Yoshitaka Zushi
- Mitsuru Hirata
- Noriko Honma
- Shigeo Katō
- Kōjirō Kusanagi
- Utaroku Miyakoya
- Kimihiro Reizei
- Kinzō Sakura
- Mieko Suzuki
- Tetsuo Yamashita
- Takao Zushi
- Nobuto Okamoto
- 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
Producers
- Hisao Kurosawa
- Hiroshi Yamamoto
Screenwriter
- Ishirō Honda
- Akira Kurosawa
