In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

• Tokuma Shoten
• dentsu Music and Entertainment
• Tatsuo Matsumura
• Kyōko Kagawa
• Hisashi Igawa
• George Tokoro
• Masayuki Yui
• Akira Terao
• Takeshi Kusaka
• Asei Kobayashi