About the film

1959894 min
DramaComedyFamily
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.
Director
Yasujirō Ozu
Actors
Keiji SadaHeiichiro FukuiYoshiko KugaSetsuko Arita
Chishū RyūKeitaro Hayashi
Kuniko MiyakeTamiko Hayashi
Haruko SugimuraKikue Haraguchi
Kōji ShitaraMinoru Hayashi
Masahiko ShimazuIsamu Hayashi
Kyōko IzumiMidori Maruyama
Taiji TonoyamaPushy Man
Toyo TakahashiShige Okubo
Sadako SawamuraKayoko Fukui
Eijirō TōnoHiroshi TomizawaReleased
May 12, 1959
Country
Japan
Production
Shochiku
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