Audience reception of Subarashiki nichiyobi

[Rob Buscher]

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 BuscherSOAS MA Candidate Japanese Film Studies 		 	   		  
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