Consulate-General of Japan in AucklandMaadadayo
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1994 Japanese Academy Award Winner - Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Lighting |
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1994 Japanese Academy Award Nominated - Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Music Score |
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1994 Blue Ribbon Award - Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress |
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1999 Chicago Film Critics Association Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film |
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Akira Kurosawa‘s last film! Legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's last film is a homage to the man who inspired him. Warm, sentimental and rousing, MAADADAYO means "not yet" in English, and tells the story of a retired teacher with a renowned lust for life, and the devoted students who maintain contact with him. Throughout the war, occupation, and reconstruction of Japan, they meet annually to toast the Professor's birthday—where he drinks an oversized glass of beer in a single draft, and his students raucously parody a game of hide-and-seek, asking him "Are you ready (for the end)?", to which he defiantly replies, "Not yet!" |
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| Screen Date | Tuesday 13 November 19:00 |
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
| Writers | Hyakken Uchida (Essays), Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay) |
| Cast | Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyoko Kagawa, Joji Tokoro, Hisashi Igawa, Akira Terao |
| Japanese w/English subtitles | ||
| 1993 | PG | 134 mins | Drama |