Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

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Main Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Masayuki Yui, Akira Terao, Takeshi Kusaka, Asei Kobayashi, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Yoshitaka Zushi

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ishirō Honda, Akira Kurosawa

Editors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda

Cinematographers: Shôji Ueda, Takao Saitō

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