Good Morning (1959)
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
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Stars:
- Yasujirō Ozu
Writing:
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Kōgo Noda
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Release Date: 1959-05-12
7.7/10
7.7/10
- Country: JP
- Language: 日本語
- Runtime: 94
Keitaro Hayashi
Kayoko Fukui
Mr. Ito
Mitsue Haraguchi
Shige Okubo
Heiichiro Fukui
Customer
Oden Restaurant Woman
Isamu Hayashi
Kikue Haraguchi
Minoru Hayashi
Setsuko Arita
Tamiko Hayashi
Midori Maruyama
Pushy Man
Hiroshi Tomizawa
Toyoko Tomizawa
Tatsuzo Haraguchi
Akira Maruyama
Policeman
Mr. Sakuma
