One Wonderful Sunday

One Wonderful Sunday
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
Written byAkira Kurosawa
Keinosuke Uekusa
Produced bySojiro Motoki
StarringIsao Numasaki
Chieko Nakakita
CinematographyAsakazu Nakai
Music byTadashi Hattori
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 25 June 1947 (1947-06-25)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

One Wonderful Sunday (Japanese: 素晴らしき日曜日, Hepburn: Subarashiki Nichiyōbi) is a 1947 Japanese film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.[1] It was made during the allied occupation of Japan and shows some of the challenges of life in early post-war Tokyo. The film is notable in the Kurosawa canon as the director's only shomin-geki,[2] and because of a fourth wall-breaking scene at the climax. It is in black-and-white and runs 108 minutes.

  1. ^ "若きクロサワが描く味わい深い人間賛歌 黒澤明素晴らしき日曜日". サライ. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  2. ^ Kempley, Rita (5 September 1986). "'One Wonderful Sunday' (NR)". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 November 2022.