In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.
Tatsuo Matsumura
Kyōko Kagawa
Hisashi Igawa
George Tokoro
Masayuki Yui
Akira Terao
Takeshi Kusaka
Asei Kobayashi
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Yoshitaka Zushi
Mitsuru Hirata
Noriko Honma
Shigeo Katō
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Utaroku Miyakoya
Kimihiro Reizei
Kinzō Sakura
Mieko Suzuki
Tetsuo Yamashita
Takao Zushi
Nobuto Okamoto
Tetsu Watanabe
Norio Matsui
Akihiko Sugizaki
Shû Nakajima
Ryûjirô Oki
Tetsuya Ito
Masuo Amada
Minoru Hirano
Kazuhiko Kasai
Eiji Bandō
Masahiko Tanimura
Tomoko Otakara
Toshihiko Nakano