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Information
- A.k.a.
- Madadayo
- Year
- 1993
- Runtime
- 134 min.
- Directors
- Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 7.3
- Votes *
- 3,874
- Checks
- 572
- Favs
- 39
- Dislikes
- 8
- Favs/checks
- 6.8% (1:15)
- Favs/dislikes
- 5:1
Top comments
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A Blue Roar
The ending of this movie is as beautiful tribute to Kurosawa's own life as to the lead role. 14 years ago -
Siskoid
Kurosawa's last film, Madadayo ("not yet"), is an extended goodbye for the director as well as the film's subject, writer Hyakken Uchida, whose pupils remained devoted to after his retirement from teaching, organizing an annual "Not Yet Festival" to celebrate his continued life. How this connects to Kurosawa's own end-of-career feelings, I can't specifically know, but if I were to force people to watch a movie at my funeral, it would be this one, at the risk of self-aggrandizing, I relate very strongly with many elements of Uchida's life, and it's with some delight that I realized midway through that I'd read some of his work (I Am a Cat). In the film, Uchida (Tatsuo Matsumura) is an endearing wit, and the character-driven comedy flows quite freely even as we head towards more tragic material. But even then, the film has such charm and grace, and ends on such a poignant image, that though I got emotional, Madadayo's celebration of life never loses its potency. What a beautiful film to go out on (though Kurosawa would have said "not yet!" - a bad fall confined him to a wheelchair and robbed him of any chance to direct more films, his health deteriorating until his death 5 years after Madadayo, age 88). 2 years 3 months ago -
