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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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Directed by: Akira Kurosawa, Shôji Ueda, Takao Saitō
Produced by: Hisao Kurosawa, Hiroshi Yamamoto
Composed by: Shinichirô Ikebe
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