MADADAYO

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• Release Year: 1993
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Foreign
• Plot: Considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Akira Kurosawa's touching and final film Madadayo, is the perfect ending to a lifetime of cinematic achievements.; ; The film follows the last two decades in the life of Hyakken Uchida, a writer and teacher who retires in the war years of the early 1940s. His students venerate him in his old age, and join him and his family each year for a ritual birthday party asking 'Mahda-kai? (Are you ready?)' to which Uchida downs a big glass of beer and answers 'Madadayo! (Not Yet!),' acknowledging that death may be near, but life still goes on.
• Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao, Takeshi Kusaka, Asei Kobayashi, Kyôko Kagawa, Mitsuru Hirata, Takao Zushi, Nobuto Okamoto, Kimihiro Reizei, Shû Nakajima, Ryûjirô Oki, Bin Sasaki, Yukimasa Natori, Shin'ya Sakaguchi, Raishin Kodama, Saburô Tôyama, Sumimaro Yochimi, Jun'ichi Kubozono, Tetsuo Yamashita, Kinzô Sakura, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Mie Suzuki, Yoshitaka Zushi, Tomoyuki Dan, Noriko Honma, Shigeo Katô, Hiroshi Kuze, Eiji Masuda, Utaroku Miyakoya, Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda, Hyakken Uchida, Gohei Kogure, Hisao Kurosawa, Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Takao Saitô, Shôji Ueda, Shinichirô Ikebe, Yoshirô Muraki
• Director: Akira Kurosawa
• Runtime: 2:14
• Company: Daiei Studios (Daiei Film Co., Ltd.; Daiei Eiga), Dentsu Inc., Kurosawa Production Inc., WinStar Cinema, Fox Lorber, WinStar TV & Video
• Media Format: Movie