Maadadayo

Aroview: A masterful, understated last word from Japanese sensei Kurosawa, here paying tribute to an inspiration from his own life with the story of a retired school teacher in post-war Japan, whose zest for living rubs off on his devoted and adoring former students.

With Kurosawa's heartfelt humanism still intact, this final film in the oeuvre stands rather fittingly as an allegory for the old master's enduring love of cinema, well into the twilight of a career regarded as one of the greatest.