Madadayo
This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an air raid, when he left to become a writer and has to live in a hut. His mood has hardly changed, not by the change nor by time.
Drama
Tokuma Shoten, Kurosawa Production Co., DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Daiei Motion Picture Company
Tatsuo Matsumura as Professor Hyakken Uchida, Kyôko Kagawa as Professor's Wife, Hisashi Igawa as Takayama, George Tokoro as Amaki, Masayuki Yui as Kiriyama, Akira Terao as Sawamura, Takeshi Kusaka as Dr. Kobayashi, Asei Kobayashi as Rev. Kameyama, Hidetaka Yoshioka as Takayama's son, Yoshitaka Zushi as Neighbor, Mitsuru Hirata as Tada, Nobuto Okamoto as Ota, Noriko Honma as Old lady holding a cat, Shigeo Katô as Stationmaster, Kôjirô Kusanagi as Man who bought the land, Utaroku Miyakoya as Packhorse driver, Kimihiro Reizei as Murayama, Kinzoh Sakura as Police, Mie Suzuki as Fishmonger's daughter, Tetsuo Yamashita as Landlord, Takao Zushi as Kitamura