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Good Morning

"Important things are hard to say."

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.

Top Cast

  • Keiji Sada

    Keiji Sada

    Heiichiro Fukui

  • Yoshiko Kuga

    Yoshiko Kuga

    Setsuko Arita

  • Chishū Ryū

    Chishū Ryū

    Keitaro Hayashi

  • Kuniko Miyake

    Kuniko Miyake

    Tamiko Hayashi

  • Haruko Sugimura

    Haruko Sugimura

    Kikue Haraguchi

  • Kōji Shitara

    Kōji Shitara

    Minoru Hayashi

  • Masahiko Shimazu

    Masahiko Shimazu

    Isamu Hayashi

  • Kyōko Izumi

    Kyōko Izumi

    Midori Maruyama

  • Taiji Tonoyama

    Taiji Tonoyama

    Pushy Man

Overview

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.

Rating

7.7 / 10
314 Reviews
2 Popular

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