Madadayo (1993)

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with him 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 a former student in his old age.
Akira Kurosawa
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 Katô, Kōjirō Kusanagi, Utaroku Miyakoya, Kimihiro Reizei, Kinzō Sakura, Mie 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 Bandô, Masahiko Tanimura, Tomoko Ôtakara, Toshihiko Nakano
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