Fresh
A lifetime of moviemaking -- Kurosawa was 83 when he made it -- seems to have pared down his technique to its essentials.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Overview
This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties. He was a university professor until an air raid, when he left to become a writer and has to live in a hut. His mood has hardly changed, not by the change nor by time.
Director and cast
- Akira Kurosawa Director
- Tatsuo Matsumura as Professor Hyakken Uchida
- Kyōko Kagawa as Professor's Wife
- Hisashi Igawa as Takayama
- George Tokoro as Amaki
- Masayuki Yui as Kiriyama
- Akira Terao as Sawamura
- Takeshi Kusaka as Dr. Kobayashi
- Asei Kobayashi as Rev. Kameyama
- Hidetaka Yoshioka as Takayama's son
- Yoshitaka Zushi as Neighbor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It's not one of Kurosawa's great films; the compass of feeling is, in the end, too narrow, the scope of human reference too restricted. But it is, within its own proportions, nearly perfect.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Fresh
This is the kind of film we would all like to make, if we were very old and very serene. There were times when I felt uncannily as if Kurosawa were filming his own graceful decline into the night.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
This warm, celebratory and very public film is punctuated by sudden and luminous private visualizations.
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
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