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Madadayo
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Madadayo is a Japanese drama film directed, written, and edited by Akira Kurosawa. The cast includes Akira Terao, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, and George Tokoro. The narrative is set in Tokyo and depicts Hyakken Uchida. The film was produced by Tokuma Shoten, dentsu Music and Entertainment, Kurosawa Production, and Daiei Film. It was distributed by Toho and Netflix, with availability on the Criterion Channel.
The movie has a runtime of 134 minutes and was released in 1993. Its budget was 8,000,000, with a capital cost of 1,300,000,000. The film earned a revenue of 1,900,000. It received a review score of 7.2/10, 88%, and 79/100. The work has won 6 awards and received 4 nominations.
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7.3In 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.
Cast
- 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
Themes
- birthday party
- tribute
- teacher student relationship
- post war japan
- 1940s
- memories of teachers
- lost cats
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
6,317 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
79/100
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Awards
- 6 wins & 4 nominations
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Madadayo
- Film.image
- MADADAYO.JPG
- Film.caption
- Theatrical Release Poster
- Film.director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Film.producer
- Hisao Kurosawa
- Film.music
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Film.distributor
- Toho
- Film.runtime
- 134 minutes
- Film.country
- Japan
- Film.language
- Japanese
- Film.budget
- ¥1.3 billion
- Film.gross
- ¥300 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Depicts
- Hyakken Uchida
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenwriter
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast member
- Tatsuo Matsumura
- Composer
- Shin'ichirō Ikebe
- Cinematographer
- Takao Saito
- Narrative location
- Tokyo
- Duration
- 134
- FilmAffinity ID
- 413655
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1993-04-17
- film editor
- Akira Kurosawa
- title
- まあだだよ
- production designer
- Yoshirō Muraki
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 79/100
- capital cost
- 1300000000
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Release
- Reception
- Critical response
- Awards and nominations
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
is a 1993 Japanese comedy-drama film. It is the thirtieth and final film to be completed by Akira Kurosawa before his death. It was screened out of competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
==Plot== The film is based on the life of Japanese academic and author Hyakken Uchida (1889–1971). While playfully teaching a class as a professor of German in the period immediately before the Second World War, Uchida tearfully announces his retirement to his crestfallen students. In 1943, he moves into a spacious house but his wife is concerned about the safety of the neighborhood. Two students arrive to pretend to burglarize the home, but instead find a series of directions written by Uchida on how to break in to the house.
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