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
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Takayama's Son
Tetsu Watanabe
Kyōko Kagawa
Professor's Wife
Hisashi Igawa
Takayama
Akira Terao
Sawamura
George Tokoro
Amaki
Tatsuo Matsumura
Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Mitsuru Hirata
Tada
Masayuki Yui
Kiriyama
Takeshi Kusaka
Dr. Kobayashi
Yoshitaka Zushi
Neighbor
Tomoko Otakara
Masuo Amada
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Man Who Bought the Land
Masahiko Tanimura
Kinzō Sakura
Policeman
Eiji Bandō
Shû Nakajima
Kazuhiko Kasai
Shigeo Katō
Stationmaster
Kimihiro Reizei
Murayama
Minoru Hirano
Takao Zushi
Kitamura
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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