It's a carefully composed, elegant, sometimes prescient work, a small-scale love story set against a background of tumultuous social and political change.
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.
Director and cast
- Akira Kurosawa Director
- Isao Numasaki as Yuzo
- Chieko Nakakita as Masako
- Atsushi Watanabe as Yamamoto
- Zeko Nakamura as Dessert Shop Owner
- Toppa Utsumi as Street Photographer
- Ichiro Namiki as Street Photographer
- Ichirō Sugai as Yamiya, the black-marketeer
- Masao Shimizu as Dance Hall Manager
- Tokuji Kobayashi as Overweight apartment receptionist
- Shiro Mizutani Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It's like looking for footprints, tracking the master this apprentice was to become.
It's a 'little people' comedy in the Frank Capra vein
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