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Madadayo (1993)

Madadayo (1993)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1993, April 17
Directors: Akira Kurosawa
Countries: Japan
Production: Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Daiei Film
Cast: Noriko Honma, Shigeo Katō, Kimihiro Reizei, Hisashi Igawa, Hidetaka Yoshioka, George Tokoro, Kyōko Kagawa, Akira Terao, Masayuki Yui, Mitsuru Hirata, Kinzō Sakura, Yoshitaka Zushi

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.

Keywords:

1940s birthday party teacher student relationship post war japan tribute memories of teachers lost cats