Cinema Club Livetream: One Wonderful Sunday

There's a rare opportunity to see One Wonderful Sunday, by Akira Kurosawa (1947) at Sands Films online cinema club on Tuesday 16 February at 8pm.

Set in US occupied post war Tokyo, this is a loose-ended, open air, film following a young man and his girlfriend on one of their off-work Sunday dates. An underpaid factory worker, he can offer his girlfriend little on this particular day, and possibly never thereafter; as he puts it, the war has destroyed his dreams. This rarely screened film shares many concerns and aspiration of the Italian cinema of the same period. As Yuzo and Masako walk together throughout Tokyo, they stop here, venture there; a high point occurs when their path crosses that of a hungry, possibly homeless boy. Alone, this child looms in contrast to the earlier group of boys at happy play in the streets.

With dreams intervening to lighten the crush of poverty and hopelessness, in bits and shards One Wonderful Sunday anticipates Kurosawa's later masterpieces.

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