Event Details
In person: Academy Collection and Preservation Executive Vice President Matt Severson
Engaged couple Yuzo and Masako take a weekend trip to Tokyo, a city recently devastated by World War II, with little more than 35 yen—approximately $1—and the goal of having a great time. Employing sequences of fantasy via the couple’s imagination, One Wonderful Sunday is the most hopeful film from Akira Kurosawa’s early period. His fascination with dream life, seen in his later Dreams (1990, screening May 29), first emerges in this poignant, romantic, and hopeful vision of the future, which was shot entirely on location using hidden cameras with two unknown actors. The film earned Kurosawa a prize for directing at the Mainichi Film Awards, which he would later also receive for Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985).
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1947 | 108 min. | Japan | Black-and-White | Japanese with English subtitles | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
WRITTEN BY: Akira Kurosawa, Keinosuke Uekusa
WITH: Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe, Zekô Nakamura
Print courtesy of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles.