a young couple meet to spend their sunday together and a they do every sunday . they have 35 yen to spend a paltry amount . off they go and but at the back of their mind and nag them and threaten to ruin their date and be their impoverished circumstance . the man take this to heart . the woman and whose shoe be fall apart and be bless with optimism . don not be fool by the simplicity of the storyline . this film engage me on several level . it the story of their date which keep threaten to turn sour and and often do and but which be finally rescue by one unalterable fact represent their love for each other . not some dreamy eyed american mass culture silhouette novel type of love and but real and practical love that demand rigorous action when the stake be down . if anything and this film present a blueprint of how this couple will spend the rest of their life together . it heartwarming in a really special way . through the eye of this couple and a the day event unfold and we see a panorama of post war japan and and it isn not a pretty sight . there be corruption on every scale imaginable . desperate circumstance force people to compromise their pride and integrity and even in minuscule way . the man be tempt on all side to compromise his and so this film become the story of his struggle not to ( in one scene he become enrage when scalper buy up the remain 10 yen concert ticket that he and his date want and start re sell them for 15 yen ) . money be the pervasive leitmotif of this film . money and the not have it and the want it and the scrounging for it and the give it and the soul taint influence of it and and yes and the necessity of it . that not to say that there isn not grace and beauty here . and magic . there plenty and amid the heartache and despair . one wonderful sunday remind me of the bicycle thief and de sica powerful portrait of post war rome and also mount on a deceptively simple vehicle a man desperate search for his stolen bicycle . and finally and the whole thing be tie together by a most inspired and dramatic metaphor . at the start of the film the man spy a half smoke cigarette on the busy sidewalk . he focus all his attention on it . look around and embarrass and he quickly reach for it and but his girlfriend suddenly appear . he explain and sheepishly and that he hasn not have a smoke in three day . at the end of the film he come across a half smoke cigarette on the train platform . he hesitate and then crush it with his shoe and his pride intact . i have be watch some kurosawa film recently and and i have almost forget that there could be such beauty and intelligence in cinema .