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Subarashiki Nichiyobi (One Wonderful Sunday) (1947)

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Akira Kurosawa directs this romantic comedy about a pair of lovers struggling to have a pleasant Sunday outing. A young laborer named Yuzo (Isao Numazaki) and his fiancée, Masako (Chieko Nakakita), meet at the train station on their day off. With the weather beautiful and only a scant 35 yen in their pockets, the two first visit a model house, where Masako imagines being a housewife. Then Yuzo plays baseball with some boys, resulting in the ball landing on a cookie shop display. After buying the

Feb 23, 1999

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It's a carefully composed, elegant, sometimes prescient work, a small-scale love story set against a background of tumultuous social and political change.

December 6, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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It's like looking for footprints, tracking the master this apprentice was to become.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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It's a 'little people' comedy in the Frank Capra vein

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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A curious mixture of the striking and the woeful

March 14, 2010 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
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microcosm of the Japanese post-war experience

January 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | Comment

The filmmaker at his maudlin worst.

February 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Two young lovers go wandering around town on one wonderful Sunday, but the movie is more serious as it sounds as they think about their futures. I really enjoyed this movie.

September 5, 2010
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a charming and severely underrated kurosawa film. a delightful romance, an easy atmosphere, and the symphony scene at the end was majestic. a bit slow mooving at points, but only because the film seeks to be genuine, and in my mind kurosawa accomplishes his purposes.

May 25, 2008
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