GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Andres Salama Akira Kurosawa's last film, from 1993, didn't attract a lot of attention when first released, perhaps because the Japanese master was already a bit out of fashion among the critics and the public in the 1990s, but this is among his best movies. Kurosawa was 83 when he directed this (he would die five years later) so in many ways this is a film about old age and about dying, but is far from somber or depressing – it's hard to think of a more elegiac film about death (it is also, of course, a film about life).The movie's protagonist is Hyakken Uchida (1889-1971), who was a real Japanese professor of German Literature, but in many ways he is in the movie an alter ego of Kurosawa, an aging master facing old age and death. Uchida is kind hearted sometimes to the point of naiveté. Plotwise, not much really happens in this slow but rewarding film – we see Uchida the day of his retirement, facing the destruction of his home during World War II, celebrating with his former students each year in a party, finally facing illness and old age. Perhaps the biggest incident in the movie is when Uchida loses his cat. But if the plot seems slight, the movie stands out as a beautiful piece of humanist filmmaking. The quietly beautiful photography and mise en scene certainly helps.

Blueghost This film brings sadness to me. Why? Because it's one of those films that you know doesn't have a happy ending, but it does. It's the encapsulation of an instructor's life, and how he's imparted his wisdom and knowledge to the students who worship him.As always, it's exceptionally well shot and well acted. The framing is perfect, and the staging of the action is heart warming. The small vignettes are what they are; slices of Japanese life from pre-war to post reconstruction, and all degrees in between. I don't have too much more to say on this film, because I wish it could end differently. I wish it could end where everyone gets together and they all have a picnic or something. I wish life could go on forever, and that no one would have to leave. and I guess that's the sense and broken promise that I get from this film. But, like Charles Schultz reminded us through Charlie Brown, sooner or later someone would have say goodbye.And that's what Madadayo is all about.

Ganesh selvaraj I watch Kurosawa's movies because they are packed with wisdom and Madadayo didn't lack the same. I was half way through 'No regrets for our youth' when I thought of watching 'Madadayao'('coz No regrets . . didn't interest me much)so I stopped watching it and started watching 'Madadyo'. Like every Kurosawa's movie 'Madadayo' delivered wisdom wittily. But I slowly lost interest in the movie when the professor starts brooding about the missing cat which I suppose is also bringing the quality of the character down, because I believe that a professor who is highly civilised wouldn't brood for days for a missing cat and I, thinking of being one of his students who hunt for the missing cat would really have given a blow on the professor's face for having called them from their duty.And as I said before - 'I liked it except for the missing cat part '

Claudio Carvalho In a pre-WWII Tokyo, the professor of German Hyakken Uchida (Tatsuo Matsumura) 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 the professor and his wife (Kyôko Kagawa) along his life. 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 professor's birthday, they have a reunion with a funny ceremony, based on children's hide and seek and referring if the professor is ready to die. They ask the professor: "-Mahda-kai?" ("Are you ready?"), and the professor responds "-Madadayo!" ("Not yet?") and drinks a large glass of beer."Madadayo" is the last direction of Master Akira Kurosawa, and is a sensitive low-paced worship of knowledge, friendship and life. I found this movie very beautiful, and I would like to highlight some points. First of all, the character of the professor Hyakken Uchida, capable of be adored by his students of different generations, very connected to a cat, living with his beloved wife but without kids. There is no explanation, but it seems quite contradictory a man of such profile not having son or daughter. Another interesting point is the changing of behavior of Japanese society with women (and family) along time. In the sixty-first anniversary of the professor (First Madadayo), there are only men in the meeting room, in spite of war finished a few years ago. Seventeen years later, the room is crowded of men, women and children. The conclusion of the story, showing that life goes on, is awesome! Last but not the least, the music score is magnificent. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Madadayo"