Good Morning (1959)

05/12/1959 (JP) • 1h 34m

Comedy, Family, Drama

Important things are hard to say.

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.

Top Billed Cast

Keiji Sada

Heiichiro Fukui

Yoshiko Kuga

Setsuko Arita

Chishū Ryū

Keitaro Hayashi

Kuniko Miyake

Tamiko Hayashi

Haruko Sugimura

Kikue Haraguchi

Kōji Shitara

Minoru Hayashi

Masahiko Shimazu

Isamu Hayashi

Kyōko Izumi

Midori Maruyama


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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

japan

parent child relationship

brotherhood

protest

inflation

consumerism

gossip

noisy neighbor

post war japan

neighborhood

japanese family

door to door salesman

family dynamics

mischievous children

town gossip

television set

boys

small talk

missing money

silence

child outsmarts adult

generational divide

farting

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