Madadayo

Madadayo

134 mins | Drama, Comedy | April 17, 1993

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

Madadayo

134 mins | Drama, Comedy | April 17, 1993

Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd., Tokuma Shoten, Kurosawa Production Co., DENTSU Music And Entertainment
Original title まあだだよ
Directors Akira Kurosawa
Writers Hyakken Uchida, Ishirō Honda, Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Tatsuo Matsumura

as Professor Hyakken Uchida

Kyōko Kagawa

as Professor's Wife

Hisashi Igawa

as Takayama

George Tokoro

as Amaki

Masayuki Yui

as Kiriyama

Akira Terao

as Sawamura

Takeshi Kusaka

as Dr. Kobayashi

Asei Kobayashi

as Rev. Kameyama

Hidetaka Yoshioka

as Takayama's son

Yoshitaka Zushi

as Neighbor

Mitsuru Hirata

as Tada

Noriko Honma

as Old lady holding a cat

Shigeo Katô

as Stationmaster

Kōjirō Kusanagi

as Man who bought the land

Utaroku Miyakoya

as Packhorse driver

Kimihiro Reizei

as Murayama

Kinzō Sakura

as Police

Mie Suzuki

as Fishmonger's daughter

Tetsuo Yamashita

as Landlord

Takao Zushi

as Kitamura