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.

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  Akira Kurosawa

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  Tatsuo Matsumura
  Prof. Hyakken Uchida
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  Kyōko Kagawa
  Professor's Wife
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  Hisashi Igawa
  Takayama
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  George Tokoro
  Amaki
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  Masayuki Yui
  Kiriyama
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  Akira Terao
  Sawamura
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  Takeshi Kusaka
  Dr. Kobayashi
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  Asei Kobayashi
  Rev. Kameyama
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  Hidetaka Yoshioka
  Takayama's Son
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  Yoshitaka Zushi
  Neighbor
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  Mitsuru Hirata
  Tada
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  Noriko Honma
  Old Lady Holding a Cat
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  Shigeo Katō
  Stationmaster
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  Kōjirō Kusanagi
  Man Who Bought the Land
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  Utaroku Miyakoya
  Packhorse Driver
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  Kimihiro Reizei
  Murayama
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  Kinzō Sakura
  Policeman
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  Mieko Suzuki
  Fishmonger's Daughter
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  Tetsuo Yamashita
  Landlord
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  Takao Zushi
  Kitamura