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.

• Tokuma Shoten
• dentsu Music And Entertainment
• Tatsuo Matsumura
• Kyōko Kagawa
• Hisashi Igawa
• George Tokoro
• Masayuki Yui
• Akira Terao
• Takeshi Kusaka
• Asei Kobayashi