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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  Yasujirō Ozu

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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
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  Sadako Sawamura
  Kayoko Fukui
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  Eijirō Tōno
  Hiroshi Tomizawa
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  Teruko Nagaoka
  Toyoko Tomizawa
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  Eiko Miyoshi
  Mitsue Haraguchi
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  Haruo Tanaka
  Tatsuzo Haraguchi
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  Akira Ōizumi
  Akira Maruyama
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  Fujio Suga
  Mr. Ito
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  Akio Satake
  The Security Bell Man
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  Keijirō Morozumi
  Policeman
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  Mutsuko Sakura
  Oden Restaurant Woman