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One Wonderful Sunday

1947 · 108 min

A tender, bittersweet stroll through a ruined city, buoyed by small hopes and a quietly devastating final flourish of imagination. Slow, humane, and quietly heartbreaking.

Overview
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • politics
  • love
  • survival
  • class
  • identity
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Akira Kurosawa
Written by
Keinosuke Uekusa, Akira Kurosawa
Starring
Isao Numasaki, Chieko Nakakita, Atsushi Watanabe, Zeko Nakamura, Toppa Utsumi, Ichiro Namiki, Ichirō Sugai, Masao Shimizu
Music
Tadashi Hattori
Cinematography
Asakazu Nakai
Runtime
108 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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