Madadayo

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.

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

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