Madadyo - Film August 1, 2009

Madadyo - Film (1993, Col). In pre war Tokyo, the professor of German, Hyakken Uchida decides to retire after thirty years of professorship, and dedicate to the career of writer. His students, some of them from different generations, love him and keep a close touch with him and his wife. In 1943, the house of the professor is bombed, he loses all his possessions and moves to a simple gardener cottage. After the war, his former students build a new small house with a lake around, and every year along seventeen years, in the professors birthday, they have a reunion with a funny ceremony, based on childrens hide and seek and referring to if the professor is ready to die. They ask the professor: Mahda-kai? (Are you ready?), and the professor responds Madadayo! (Not yet?).

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