Madadayo
Comedy, Drama
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1993
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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.
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Runtime:
134 min
Release date:
17 Apr 1993
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Budget:
$8,000,000
Revenue:
$1,900,000
Awards:
6 wins & 4 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A lifetime of moviemaking -- Kurosawa was 83 when he made it -- seems to have pared down his technique to its essentials.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
7 Aug 2004
fresh:
It's not one of Kurosawa's great films; the compass of feeling is, in the end, too narrow, the scope of human reference too restricted. But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect.
– A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
This is the kind of film we would all like to make, if we were very old and very serene. There were times when I felt uncannily as if Kurosawa were filming his own graceful decline into the night.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
This warm, celebratory and very public film is punctuated by sudden and luminous private visualizations.
– Bob Graham,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000