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Madadayo

Japan

1993

134 Min
Color
1.33:1
Japanese, English
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DIR Akira Kurosawa

EXEC Yuzo Irie, Yo Yamamoto

PROD Gohei Kogure, Hisao Kurosawa, Yasuyoshi Tokuma

SCR Akira Kurosawa, Uchida Hyakken

DP Takao Saitô, Masaharu Ueda

CAST Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyôko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao

ED Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda

PROD DES Yoshirô Muraki

MUSIC Shinichiro Ikebe

SOUND Hideo Nishizaki

Cannes (Out of Competition), Toronto (Special Presentations), Venice

Synopsis

For his final film, Akira Kurosawa paid tribute to the immensely popular writer and educator Hyakken Uchida, here played by Tatsuo Matsumura. Madadayo is composed of distinct episodes based on Uchida’s writings that illustrate the affection and loyalty felt between Uchida and his students. Poignant and elegant, this is an unforgettable farewell from one of the greatest artists the cinema has ever known. –The Criterion Collection

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Akira Kurosawa

The son of an army officer, Kurosawa studied art before gravitating to film as a means of supporting himself. He served seven years as an assistant to director Kajiro Yamamoto before he began his own directorial career with Sanshiro Sugata (1943), a film about the 19th century struggle for supremacy between adherents of judo and jujitsu that so impressed the military government, he was prevailed upon to make a sequel (Sanshiro Sugata Part Two). Following the end of World War II, Kurosawa’s career gathered speed with a series of films that cut across all genres, from crime thrillers to period dramas. Among the latter, his Rashomon (1951) became the first postwar Japanese film to find wide favor with Western audiences. It was Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai (1954), however, that made the largest impact of any of his movies outside of Japan. Although heavily cut for its original release, this three-hour-plus medieval action drama, shot with painstaking… read more

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13May12

only kurosawa can show how to being old by this way,so humanity..

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Border Radio

26Jun11

Made me want to throw up. Truly woeful.

Diego Gatto

5Apr11

Perfeito, sensível, uma lição de vida, humildade e carinho para com aqueles que são nossos Mestres. Sem dúvida, o epitáfio mais belo de um diretor.

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By All Is Grace on February 7, 2010

Such a beautiful piece of art. I think Kurosawa’s whole career is one movie, and this is the ending of his long career, and God, this is so beautiful. The last scene when the old professor (read Kurosawa…  read review

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