
Madadayo
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.
- Year: 1993
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Drama, Comedy
- Studio: Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Daiei Film
- Keyword: birthday party, tribute, teacher student relationship, post war japan, 1940s, memories of teachers, lost cats
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao





















