Audience reception of Subarashiki nichiyobi

[Linda Ehrlich]

Interesting question.
   I wonder if Kurosawa had seen any version of PETER PAN (the scene where
the audience is asked to shout out if they believe in fairies, to save a
dying Tinker Bell)? I believe this request for audience response happens one
more time in the novel as well. Just a thought...
    Linda Ehrlich

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Rob Buscher <robbuscher at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> I was watching Kurosawa Akira's 1947 *Subarashiki nichiyobi* (*One
> Wonderful Sunday*) 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> Cheers,
> Rob Buscher
> SOAS MA Candidate Japanese Film Studies
>



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Linda E.

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