Parasite
2019 · Comedy · Thriller
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Film / 1993
Madadayo
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Tatsuo MatsumuraProf. Hyakken Uchida
Kyōko KagawaProfessor's Wife
Hisashi IgawaTakayama
George TokoroAmaki
Masayuki YuiKiriyama
Akira TeraoSawamura
Takeshi KusakaDr. Kobayashi
Asei KobayashiRev. Kameyama
Hidetaka YoshiokaTakayama's Son
Yoshitaka ZushiNeighbor
Mitsuru HirataTada
Noriko HonmaOld Lady Holding a Cat
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Shigeo KatōStationmaster
Kōjirō KusanagiMan Who Bought the Land
Utaroku MiyakoyaPackhorse Driver
Kimihiro ReizeiMurayama
Kinzō SakuraPoliceman
Mieko SuzukiFishmonger's Daughter
Tetsuo YamashitaLandlord
Takao ZushiKitamura
Nobuto OkamotoOta
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
Tokuju Masuda
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