Madadayo Backdrop

Madadayo

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.

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Box Office

Budget: $8,000,000
Revenue: $1,900,000
ROI: -76.3%

Verdict: Flop

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Crew

Directors

> Akira Kurosawa (Director)
> Takao Saitō (Director of Photography)
> Shoji Ueda (Director of Photography)

Writers

> Ishirō Honda (Screenplay)
> Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay)
> Hyakken Uchida (Original Story)