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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.
Where to watch
Criterion ChannelAvailability by JustWatch · All options on TMDB
Cast
Tatsuo MatsumuraProf. Hyakken Uchida
Kyōko KagawaProfessor's Wife
Hisashi IgawaTakayama
George TokoroAmaki
Masayuki YuiKiriyama
Akira TeraoSawamura
Takeshi KusakaDr. Kobayashi
Asei KobayashiRev. Kameyama
Hidetaka YoshiokaTakayama's Son
Yoshitaka ZushiNeighbor
Mitsuru HirataTada
Noriko HonmaOld Lady Holding a Cat
Shigeo KatōStationmaster
Kōjirō KusanagiMan Who Bought the Land
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writers
- Hyakken Uchida, Akira Kurosawa
- Release date
- April 17, 1993
- Runtime
- 2h 14m
- Budget
- $8M
- Box office
- $1.9M worldwide
- Original language
- Japanese
- Studios
- Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production
