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.
as Prof. Hyakken Uchida
as Professor's Wife
as Takayama
as Amaki
as Kiriyama
as Sawamura
as Dr. Kobayashi
as Rev. Kameyama
as Takayama's Son
as Neighbor
as Tada
as Old Lady Holding a Cat
as Stationmaster
as Man Who Bought the Land
as Packhorse Driver
as Murayama
as Policeman
as Fishmonger's Daughter
as Landlord
as Kitamura
as Ota
