Madadayo

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.

• Akira KurosawaDirector
• Shinichiro IkebeOriginal Music Composer
• Akira KurosawaScreenplay

• 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
• Mitsuru HirataTada
• Noriko HonmaOld Lady Holding a Cat