"One Wonderful Sunday"
1947
Directed by Akira Kurosawa

This beautifully realized, stylistically adventurous, early film from Akira Kurosawa is marked by both its sentimentality and subtle irony. A young, poor couple does their best to enjoy a Sunday afternoon in bustling Tokyo, even as their lack of funds and lousy weather conspire against them. Their main goal is to somehow attend a costly performance of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, but the music manages to find them on their romantic day together. Balancing realism with eternal optimism, Kurosawa crafts an indelible vision of young love. Japanese with English subtitles.  108 minutes.