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.
Tatsuo Matsumura
Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Top cast
Tatsuo Matsumura·Kyōko Kagawa·Hisashi Igawa·George Tokoro·Masayuki Yui·Akira Terao·Takeshi Kusaka·Asei Kobayashi