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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.
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Mâdadayo (1993) ORIGINAL TRAILER
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- Apr 17, 1993
- 2h 14m
- Japanese
- Akira Kurosawa
- Hyakken Uchida, Akira Kurosawa
- Released
- $8.0M
- $1.9M
