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Madadayo
1993 7.3 (125 votes) 2h 14m
Genres
Drama Comedy
Production Companies
Tokuma Shoten
dentsu Music and Entertainment
Kurosawa Production
Daiei Film

Madadayo (まあだだよ)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Director of Photography: Shôji Ueda, Takao Saitō

Screenplay: Ishirō Honda, Akira Kurosawa

Producer: Hisao Kurosawa, Hiroshi Yamamoto

Top Cast

Tatsuo Matsumura
Tatsuo Matsumura

Prof. Hyakken Uchida

Kyōko Kagawa
Kyōko Kagawa

Professor's Wife

Hisashi Igawa
Hisashi Igawa

Takayama

George Tokoro
George Tokoro

Amaki

Masayuki Yui
Masayuki Yui

Kiriyama

Akira Terao
Akira Terao

Sawamura

Takeshi Kusaka
Takeshi Kusaka

Dr. Kobayashi

Asei Kobayashi
Asei Kobayashi

Rev. Kameyama

Videos

Mâdadayo (1993) ORIGINAL TRAILER

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