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 Matsumura
Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Kyōko Kagawa
Professor's Wife
Hisashi Igawa
Takayama
George Tokoro
Amaki
Masayuki Yui
Kiriyama
Akira Terao
Sawamura
Takeshi Kusaka
Dr. Kobayashi
Asei Kobayashi
Rev. Kameyama
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Takayama's Son
Yoshitaka Zushi
Neighbor
Mitsuru Hirata
Tada
Noriko Honma
Old Lady Holding a Cat
Shigeo Katō
Stationmaster
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Man Who Bought the Land
Utaroku Miyakoya
Packhorse Driver
Kimihiro Reizei
Murayama
Kinzō Sakura
Policeman
Mieko Suzuki
Fishmonger's Daughter
Tetsuo Yamashita
Landlord
Takao Zushi
Kitamura
Nobuto Okamoto
Ota
Tetsu Watanabe
Unknown
Norio Matsui
Unknown
Akihiko Sugizaki
Unknown
Shû Nakajima
Unknown
Ryûjirô Oki
Unknown
Tetsuya Ito
Unknown
Masuo Amada
Unknown
Minoru Hirano
Unknown
Kazuhiko Kasai
Unknown
Eiji Bandō
Unknown
Masahiko Tanimura
Unknown
Tomoko Otakara
Unknown
Toshihiko Nakano
Unknown
Crew
Akira Kurosawa
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Storyboard Artist
Ishirō Honda
Screenplay, Editor
Shôji Ueda
Director of Photography
Takao Saitō
Director of Photography
Hisao Kurosawa
Producer
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Producer
Kazuko Kurosawa
Costume Design
Shinichiro Ikebe
Original Music Composer
Hyakken Uchida
Original Story
Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction
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