Madadayo, Akira Kurosawa's final project, is an intimate affair — a fond fictional portrait of a real-life artist that opens with the writer Hyakken Uchida (Matsumura) announcing his retirement from teaching to his beloved students. Skipping through Uchida's life, the director sketches a tale about friendship, devoting his famed intensity to a swan song that's quietly passionate about life and gently philosophical about death.
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