Drama Comedy
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.
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Kazuhiko Kasai
Shigeo Katō
Stationmaster
Shû Nakajima
Kyōko Kagawa
Professor's Wife
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Takayama's Son
Minoru Hirano
Tetsu Watanabe
George Tokoro
Amaki
Tatsuo Matsumura
Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Man Who Bought the Land
Eiji Bandō
Masuo Amada
Mitsuru Hirata
Tada
Akira Terao
Sawamura
Hisashi Igawa
Takayama
Yoshitaka Zushi
Neighbor
Masayuki Yui
Kiriyama
Tomoko Otakara
Takeshi Kusaka
Dr. Kobayashi
Takao Zushi
Kitamura
Kinzō Sakura
Policeman
Masahiko Tanimura
Kimihiro Reizei
Murayama
Noriko Honma
Old Lady Holding a Cat
Utaroku Miyakoya
Packhorse Driver
Mieko Suzuki
Fishmonger's Daughter
Tetsuo Yamashita
Landlord
Nobuto Okamoto
Ota
Norio Matsui
Akihiko Sugizaki
Ryûjirô Oki
Tetsuya Ito
Toshihiko Nakano

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