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
Masuo Amada
Hisashi Igawa
Takayama
Tatsuo Matsumura
Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Tomoko Otakara
Akira Terao
Sawamura
Masahiko Tanimura
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Man Who Bought the Land
Masayuki Yui
Kiriyama
Yoshitaka Zushi
Neighbor
Noriko Honma
Old Lady Holding a Cat
Mitsuru Hirata
Tada
Shigeo Katô
Stationmaster
Takeshi Kusaka
Dr. Kobayashi
Kazuhiko Kasai
Kinzō Sakura
Policeman
George Tokoro
Amaki
Takao Zushi
Kitamura
Minoru Hirano
Eiji Bandō
Shû Nakajima
Kimihiro Reizei
Murayama
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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