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

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