Akira Kurosawa

One Wonderful Sunday

One Wonderful Sunday

This affectionate paean to young love is also a frank examination by Akira Kurosawa of the harsh realities of postwar Japan. During a Sunday trip into war-ravaged Tokyo, Yuzo and Masako look for work and lodging, as well as affordable entertainments to pass the time. Reminiscent of Frank Capra’s social-realist comedies and echoing contemporaneous Italian neorealism, One Wonderful Sunday touchingly offers a sliver of hope in dark times.

Film Info

  • Japan
  • 1947
  • 109 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.33:1
  • Japanese

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One Wonderful Sunday
Cast
Isao Numasaki
Yuzo
Chieko Nakakita
Masako
Atsushi Watanabe
Yamamoto
Zeko Nakamura
Dessert shop owner
Ichiro Sugai
Yamiya, the black marketeer
Masao Shimizu
Dance hall manager
Credits
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Akira Kurosawa
Screenplay
Keinosuke Uegusa
Cinematography
Asakazu Nakai
Music
Tadashi Hattori

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Arguably the most celebrated Japanese filmmaker of all time, Akira Kurosawa had a career that spanned from the Second World War to the early nineties and that stands as a monument of artistic, entertainment, and personal achievement. His best-known films remain his samurai epics Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, but his intimate dramas, such as Ikiru and High and Low, are just as searing. The first serious phase of Kurosawa’s career came during the postwar era, with Drunken Angel and Stray Dog, gritty dramas about people on the margins of society that featured the first notable appearances by Toshiro Mifune, the director’s longtime leading man. Kurosawa would subsequently gain international fame with Rashomon, a breakthrough in nonlinear narrative and sumptuous visuals. Following a personal breakdown in the late sixties, Kurosawa rebounded by expanding his dark brand of humanism into new stylistic territory, with films such as Kagemusha and Ran, visionary, color, epic ruminations on modern man and nature.