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Madadayo (1993)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Drama, Comedy · 2h 14m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenplay
- Akira Kurosawa
- Director of Photography
- Shoji Ueda, Takao Saitō
- Original Music Composer
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Editor
- Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda
- Producer
- Hisao Kurosawa
Details
- Original title
- まあだだよ
- Release date
- 1993-04-17
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Daiei Film
- Budget
- $8,000,000
- Box office
- $1,900,000