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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.
Where to watch Madadayo
Madadayo is streaming in the US on Criterion Channel.
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
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Released
- April 17, 1993
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Studio
- Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment and Kurosawa Production
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 7.3 / 10 from 142 votes
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