まあだだよ (1993)

Title: Madadayo

Original Title: まあだだよ

Release Date: 1993-04-17

Status: Released

Rating: 7.3/10 (from 126 votes)

Language: JA

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Production Companies: Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, Daiei Film

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.