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Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
Language
Budget$8,000,000
Revenue $1,900,000
日本語
Budget$8,000,000
Revenue $1,900,000
Keywords
birthday party
tribute
teacher student relationship
post war japan
1940s
memories of teachers
lost cats
Casts

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
Norio Matsui
Akihiko Sugizaki

Shû Nakajima
Ryûjirô Oki
Tetsuya Ito

Masuo Amada

Minoru Hirano

Kazuhiko Kasai

Eiji Bandō

Masahiko Tanimura

Tomoko Otakara
Toshihiko Nakano
Crews

Akira Kurosawa
Director
Takao Saitō
Director of Photography
Shôji Ueda
Director of Photography

Shinichirô Ikebe
Original Music Composer

Akira Kurosawa
Storyboard Artist

Akira Kurosawa
Editor
Hyakken Uchida
Original Story

Ishirō Honda
Screenplay

Ishirō Honda
Editor
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Producer

Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Hisao Kurosawa
Producer

Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction
Kazuko Kurosawa
Costume Design
Backdrops & Posters







