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Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I was watching Kurosawa Akira's 1947 <i>Subarashiki nichiyobi</i> (<i>One Wonderful Sunday</i>) as part of a research project I am doing on Occupation period film, and I had a question about the audience reception at that time. </div><div><br></div><div>The second to last scene in the film, when Masako pleads into the camera for applause 'for the young lovers everywhere', how did audiences perceive this at the time?</div><div><br></div><div>Surely there cannot have been many films at that time to break the fourth wall so blatantly? Does anyone on the list know if the audiences actually responded with applause? </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Rob Buscher</div><div>SOAS MA Candidate Japanese Film Studies</div> </body>
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