Madadayo
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1993-04-17
Runtime: 134 mins
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Spoken language: 日本語
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Original title: Madadayo
Production Companies: Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Daiei Film
Production Countries: Japan
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
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