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Good Morning

1959 Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

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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Keiji Sada

Keiji Sada

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Heiichiro Fukui

Yoshiko Kuga

Yoshiko Kuga

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Setsuko Arita

Chishū Ryū

Chishū Ryū

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Keitaro Hayashi

Kuniko Miyake

Kuniko Miyake

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Tamiko Hayashi

Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

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Kikue Haraguchi

Kōji Shitara

Kōji Shitara

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Minoru Hayashi

Masahiko Shimazu

Masahiko Shimazu

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Isamu Hayashi

94 minutes

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