Good Morning (1959)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1959-05-12
Runtime: 94 minutes
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
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- Keiji Sada as Heiichiro Fukui
- Yoshiko Kuga as Setsuko Arita
- Chishū Ryū as Keitaro Hayashi
- Kuniko Miyake as Tamiko Hayashi
- Haruko Sugimura as Kikue Haraguchi
- Kōji Shitara as Minoru Hayashi
- Masahiko Shimazu as Isamu Hayashi
- Kyōko Izumi as Midori Maruyama
- Taiji Tonoyama as Pushy Man
- Toyo Takahashi as Shige Okubo
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