Parsed Participle

In the same way that a friend (who is a researcher in Women's Studies) once explained how 'I Love Lucy' has been frequently suspected of being a 'propaganda' TV show, in how it promotes gender roles, is Sanchōme no Yūhi itself a nostalgia-packaged, public-influencing, collective viewpoint that Japanese society is better off emulating the Showa stereotypes depicted in the films?

Well, don't get me wrong, I'm a sort of Showa fan myself (package anything with a vaguely Showa feel to it, and I'll probably bite) - and despite the melodrama (Think Bollywood sans song and dance), it was fun to watch. Not the first Japanese movie I've watched fully without subtitles, but certainly the first on a big screen for me.