Good Morning (1959)

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.
Yasujirō Ozu
Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishū Ryū, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura, Kôji Shitara, Masahiko Shimazu, Kyôko Izumi, Taiji Tonoyama, Toyo Takahashi, Sadako Sawamura, Eijirō Tōno, Teruko Nagaoka, Eiko Miyoshi, Haruo Tanaka, Akira Ôizumi, Fujio Suga, Akio Satake, Keijirô Morozumi, Mutsuko Sakura, Norikazu Takeda, Yôko Chimura, Hajime Shirata, Masuo Fujiki, Toshio Shimamura, Tsûsai Sugawara
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