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