Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #141894 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-18
• Rating: Unrated
• Formats: Black & White, Subtitled, Import, NTSC
• Original language: Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Running time: 107 minutes

Album Description
Asian NTSC/All Code DVD. 1947 film directed by AkiraKurosawa. Black & White. 107 minutes. English subtitles.

Customer Reviews

Please, let' s help us to applause to make our dreams materialize by themselves
1947: the world was just recovering from the horrors and the ashes of the bloody WW2. In Italy, De Sica won the Cannes festival with Shoeshine, Marcel Carne (The children of paradise) and Jean Cocteau (Orpheus) found through the myth and the poetry, solid answers to a deep end question, and at the same time Frank Capra filmed his masterpiece: "It's a wonderful life". In this sense, I want to catch your attention in which concerns the world was hovered by a very thick cloud of hopeless and pain.

In Japan after the devastation and the painful wounds, Akira Kurosawa, a very young director by then, was filming that admirable fable, around two outlaw people, an impoverished couple who simply is unable to make their dreams come true on a Sunday. She dreams with a new home and a renovated life although the odds, and then the magic will arouse among them when the illusion be so strong that be able to materialize a live concert playing the "Unfinished Symphony."

One might say - without hesitation - this was the first Japanese film inscribed into the mainstream best knwon as Neo Realism.

One of these forgotten little gems of this kaleidoscopic filmmaker.

One Wonderful Love Story
Akira Kurosawa seems to be able to excel at whatever genre he chooses. In "One WOnderful Sunday" we are presented with a love story of a young Japanese couple in Post-WWII Japan. The challenges that they face as a couple are many; under-employment, no money, high prices, black market economy, virtual homelessness, low self-esteem, etc. etc. etc.. However, they do have each other and they have their Sundays together. This particular Sunday, with only the equivalent of a couple of bucks between them, they try and figure what options they have for entertainment.

We soon get to know their personalities. The young man is a principled war veteran who is ashamed that he can't offer his fiance more than just his companionship. The young lady is a postive individual who sees the brighter side of every issue. It is she who seems to be able to keep the relationship upbeat. Their day has its' ups and downs; at times they find enjoyment in simple pleasures and at other times they find themselves shut out from things they felt they should have been able to afford. Their day reaches a crisis point that made me wonder where the film's title came from. When all seems lost, they seem to rediscover that their relationship (like all relationships) depends on their love and respect for each other rather than their focus on their individual needs.

The movie lives up to its' title (as I was certain it would). As the movie unfolds, we are drawn to this couple. In that process, we get a real sense of the joys and sorrows that come their way. At times we may feel that someone should do something to help. Eventually, we realize that the only ones that CAN help are the young couple themselves. In watching their discovery of this fact, we are uplifted.