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