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Madadayo

1993 · 134 min

A gentle, episodic celebration of a teacher's life that feels like a warm, bittersweet gathering of old friends.

Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Overview
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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Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Genres
Drama, Comedy
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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • aging
  • friendship
  • found family
  • grief
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao, Takeshi Kusaka, Asei Kobayashi
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
134 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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