One Wonderful Sunday

In terms of production, recalling Roberto Rossellini’s war trilogy immediately after the end of the Second World War in Italy, Akira Kurosawa told a sweetly sad little tale of people who have nothing. Set in the final days of the Japanese involvement in the war (presumably because the war is barely mentioned and there’s no American presence), it’s a film of an engaged couple finding a way to spend their day off of work with a grand thirty-five yen between them. Using real locations and some ...