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Madadayo
Genres
DramaComedy
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.
Details
Budget
$8000000
Revenue
$1900000
Runtime
134 min
Release Date
1993-04-17
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
127
Vote Average
7.319
Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
Tatsuo Matsumura
Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Kyōko Kagawa
Professor's Wife
Hisashi Igawa
Takayama
George Tokoro
Amaki
Masayuki Yui
Kiriyama
Akira Terao
Sawamura
Takeshi Kusaka
Dr. Kobayashi
Asei Kobayashi
Rev. Kameyama
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Takayama's Son
Yoshitaka Zushi
Neighbor
Mitsuru Hirata
Tada
Noriko Honma
Old Lady Holding a Cat
Shigeo Katō
Stationmaster
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Man Who Bought the Land
Utaroku Miyakoya
Packhorse Driver
Kimihiro Reizei
Murayama
Kinzō Sakura
Policeman
Mieko Suzuki
Fishmonger's Daughter
Tetsuo Yamashita
Landlord
Takao Zushi
Kitamura
Nobuto Okamoto
Ota
Tetsu Watanabe
Norio Matsui
Akihiko Sugizaki
Shû Nakajima
Ryûjirô Oki
Tetsuya Ito
Masuo Amada
Minoru Hirano
Kazuhiko Kasai
Eiji Bandō
Masahiko Tanimura
Tomoko Otakara
Toshihiko Nakano
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