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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director of Photography: Shôji Ueda, Takao Saitō
Screenplay: Ishirō Honda, Akira Kurosawa
Producer: Hisao Kurosawa, Hiroshi Yamamoto
Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Professor's Wife
Takayama
Amaki
Kiriyama
Sawamura
Dr. Kobayashi
Rev. Kameyama
Mâdadayo (1993) ORIGINAL TRAILER