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Madadayo
1993 • 2h 14m • ★ 7.3 (129 votes) Released
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.
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Ishirō Honda
Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa
Rating
7.3
Runtime
134 min
Budget
$8.0M
Revenue
$1.9M
Profit/Loss
-6.1M
Production
Tokuma Shoten
dentsu Music and Entertainment Kurosawa Production
Daiei FilmTop Billed Cast
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Keywords
birthday partytributeteacher student relationshippost war japan1940smemories of teacherslost cats
