Madadayo
1993movie2h 14mReleased
DramaComedy
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Budget: $8,000,000 · Revenue: $1,900,000
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.
