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Ace Craven
17Aug11
One beautiful movie. "Look! Pigs in the lion's cage! The world these days is run by pigs who've gotten fat on the black market." A heart warming story that doesnt lose its sense of reality. Young and in love, broke but optimistic, like Kurosawa does a Truffaut movie. Simple but timeless, honest, and relatable. A classic story arch routes this truely moving love story. "The unfinished synphony hasn't changed."
trolley freak
6Aug11
Of the six films Kurosawa made before his first collaboration with Toshiro Mifune, this is my favourite. A charming and bittersweet story of two young lovers with very little money between them who spend a day in the rubble strewn streets of post-war Tokyo. They walk, they talk, they argue, they make up and daydream about a better future. Just a year later Drunken Angel was released and the rest is cinema history....
johndmoore
10Mar11
Kurosawa's 1947 film One Wonderful Sunday possesses so many wonderful scenes (particularly the one where the young couple visits the model home to an absolutely perfectly placed rendition of "My Blue Heaven"). It's a beautiful portrait of occupation-era hardship. And, ultimately, hope in spite of it. The fourth-wall breaking experiment at the end is a curious one, but I have a great fondness for it.
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Franklinton Underground Cinema
29Jun10
I have read a few reviews and essays that suggest the "unfinished symphony" sequence at the end actually "marred" the film. I thought it made the film.
Ian Loreños
5May10
Probably one of the most underrated films. This film is a masterpiece story wise, technical wise. I was really moved by the story represents. Please watch this film. A must see.
Rodney Welch
8Dec09
It's tough being broke and in love in postwar Japan; reality is always getting between you and your dream. So it is withYuzo and his financée, Masako, who try to make the most of the one day of the week they have together. Poverty has eaten deep into Yuzo's morale, but Masako is a powerful yin to his yang: upbeat and imaginative. Kurosawa asks the world of his two actors in this light, tight drama, and gets it