Film
Madadayo
1993 · 2h 14m · Drama · Comedy
- IMDb
- 7.3
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 88%
- Metacritic
- 79
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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.
Where to watch
Criterion Channel
Cast
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
Crew
- Akira KurosawaDirector · Editor · Screenplay
- Hisao KurosawaProducer
- Hiroshi YamamotoExecutive Producer
- Yuzo IrieExecutive Producer
- Shoji UedaDirector of Photography
- Takao SaitōDirector of Photography
- Shinichiro IkebeOriginal Music Composer
- Ishirō HondaEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 17, 1993
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Rated
- 6
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Revenue
- $1,900,000
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
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