Numasaki as Yuzo Atsushi Watanabe as Yamamoto Zeko Nakamura as the dessert shop owner Ichiro Sugai as Yamiya, the black-marketeer Masao Shimizu as the dance hall manager Midori Ariyama as Sono, Yamiya's mistress Sachio Sakai as the ticket seller Production One Wonderful Sunday is seen as a variation on the shomin-geki genre. On the film's climatic fourth wall-breaking scene, where the character Masako turns to the camera with moist eyes and earnestly asks the audience to applaud so that Yuzo and her can hear the music they are imagining, Akira Kurosawa said he wanted to "transform the audience into actual participants in the plot". Although Japanese audiences sat motionless during the scene, creating an "awkward empty space" where Kurosawa intended engagement, the director later happily remarked that audiences in Paris applauded with enthusiasm. Reissues The Criterion Collection has released One Wonderful Sunday on DVD in North America as part of two Kurosawa-centered box sets; 2008's Postwar Kurosawa, the seventh entry in their Eclipse series, and 2009's AK 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa. Reception Rita Kempley of The Washington Post called One Wonderful Sunday "stylistically excessive, [and] wildly experimental", but wrote it does presage the genius of Kurosawa's later works, "with low tracking shots, characteristically close crops and obstructive scenery making their debut. It's like looking for footprints, tracking the master this apprentice was to become." David A. Conrad found One Wonderful Sunday to be one of many occupation-era Japanese films that parallel the more famous Italian neorealism movement, emphasizing poverty, hunger, weakening social mores, and urban dilapidation in the years after World War II. Awards Mainichi Film Concours – "Best Director" and "Best Screenplay", 1948. References External links One Wonderful Sunday at Allmovie One Wonderful Sunday at Rotten Tomatoes One Wonderful Sunday at the Japanese Movie Database 1947 films Films directed by Akira Kurosawa 1940s Japanese-language films 1947 romantic drama films Japanese black-and-white films Toho films Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa Films produced by Sōjirō Motoki Japanese romantic drama films Films set in Tokyo