

Good Morning
1959 Directed by Yasujirō OzuA 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.

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
Director
...........................................................Yasujirō Ozu
Producer
...........................................................Shizuo Yamanouchi
Production Design
...........................................................Tatsuo Hamada
Sound Director
...........................................................Yoshisaburo Seno
Editor
...........................................................Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Original Music Composer
...........................................................Toshirō Mayuzumi
Director of Photography
...........................................................Yûharu Atsuta
Production Companies
...................................................Shochiku
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Comedy
Family
Drama
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