
134 minutes
4/17/1993
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.

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

Takeshi Kusaka
as Dr. Kobayashi

Asei Kobayashi
as Rev. Kameyama

Hidetaka Yoshioka
as Takayama's Son

Yoshitaka Zushi
as Neighbor

Mitsuru Hirata
as Tada

Noriko Honma
as Old Lady Holding a Cat

Shigeo Katō
as Stationmaster

Kōjirō Kusanagi
as Man Who Bought the Land
Utaroku Miyakoya
as Packhorse Driver

Kimihiro Reizei
as Murayama

Kinzō Sakura
as Policeman
Mieko Suzuki
as Fishmonger's Daughter
Tetsuo Yamashita
as Landlord

Takao Zushi
as Kitamura
Nobuto Okamoto
as Ota

Tetsu Watanabe
Norio Matsui
Akihiko Sugizaki

Shû Nakajima
Ryûjirô Oki
Tetsuya Ito

Masuo Amada

Minoru Hirano

Kazuhiko Kasai

Eiji Bandō

Masahiko Tanimura

Tomoko Otakara
Toshihiko Nakano