Madadayo (1993)
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.
- Released
- 1993-04-17
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 from 142 votes
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