Good Morning

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

  Heiichiro Fukui
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  Yoshiko Kuga

  Setsuko Arita
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  Chishū Ryū

  Keitaro Hayashi
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  Kuniko Miyake

  Tamiko Hayashi
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  Haruko Sugimura

  Kikue Haraguchi
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  Kōji Shitara

  Minoru Hayashi
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  Masahiko Shimazu

  Isamu Hayashi
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  Kyōko Izumi

  Midori Maruyama
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  Taiji Tonoyama

  Pushy Man
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  Toyo Takahashi

  Shige Okubo