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Madadayo (1993)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Most recently watched by sleestakk
Overview
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.
Length 134 minutes
Actors
Tatsuo Matsumura | Kyôko Kagawa | Hisashi Igawa | George Tokoro | Masayuki Yui | Akira Terao | Takeshi Kusaka | Asei Kobayashi | Hidetaka Yoshioka | Yoshitaka Zushi | Mitsuru Hirata | Noriko Honma | Shigeo Katô | Kôjirô Kusanagi | Utaroku Miyakoya | Kimihiro Reizei | Kinzoh 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 Bandô | Masahiko Tanimura | Tomoko Ôtakara | Toshihiko Nakano