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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Tatsuo Matsumura as Prof. Hyakken Uchida
Kyōko Kagawa as Professor's Wife
Hisashi Igawa as Takayama
George Tokoro as Amaki
Masayuki Yui as Kiriyama
Akira Terao as Sawamura
Takeshi Kusaka as Dr. Kobayashi
Asei Kobayashi as Rev. Kameyama
Hidetaka Yoshioka as Takayama's Son
Yoshitaka Zushi as Neighbor
Mitsuru Hirata as Tada
Noriko Honma as Old Lady Holding a Cat
Shigeo Katō as Stationmaster
Kōjirō Kusanagi as Man Who Bought the Land
Utaroku Miyakoya as Packhorse Driver
Kimihiro Reizei as Murayama
Kinzō Sakura as Policeman
Mieko Suzuki as Fishmonger's Daughter
Tetsuo Yamashita as Landlord
Takao Zushi as Kitamura
Nobuto Okamoto as Ota
Tetsu Watanabe as
Norio Matsui as
Akihiko Sugizaki as
Shû Nakajima as
Ryûjirô Oki as
Tetsuya Ito as
Masuo Amada as
Minoru Hirano as
Kazuhiko Kasai as
Eiji Bandō as
Masahiko Tanimura as
Tomoko Otakara as
Toshihiko Nakano as
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