07 Mar 1976
Sounds of War
Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.
Madadayo
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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松村達雄 Prof. Hyakken Uchida
香川京子 Professor's Wife
井川比佐志 Takayama
所ジョージ Amaki
油井昌由樹 Kiriyama
寺尾聰 Sawamura
日下武史 Dr. Kobayashi
吉岡秀隆 Takayama's Son
頭師佳孝 Neighbor
平田満 Tada
本間文子 Old Lady Holding a Cat
加藤茂雄 Stationmaster
草薙幸二郎 Man Who Bought the Land
Utaroku Miyakoya Packhorse Driver
冷泉公裕 Murayama
桜金造 Policeman
鈴木美恵子 Fishmonger's Daughter
Tetsuo Yamashita Landlord
頭師孝雄 Kitamura
岡本信人 Ota
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