Home Movies TV Series Search Sign in

Madadayo

7.3 134 mins Drama   Comedy   1993
Tokuma Shoten   dentsu Music and Entertainment   Kurosawa Production   Daiei Film  
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa

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.

Casts of Madadayo

Tatsuo Matsumura

as Prof. 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 Katō

as Stationmaster

Kōjirō Kusanagi

as Man Who Bought the Land

Utaroku Miyakoya

as Packhorse Driver

Kimihiro Reizei

as Murayama

Kinzō Sakura

as Policeman

Mieko Suzuki

as Fishmonger's Daughter

Tetsuo Yamashita

as Landlord

Takao Zushi

as Kitamura

You might also like