Good Morning

Important things are hard to say.

94 mins
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.

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

Kyōko Izumi

Midori Maruyama

Toyo Takahashi

Shige Okubo

Sadako Sawamura

Kayoko Fukui

Eijirō Tōno

Hiroshi Tomizawa

Teruko Nagaoka

Toyoko Tomizawa

Eiko Miyoshi

Mitsue Haraguchi

Haruo Tanaka

Tatsuzo Haraguchi

Akira Ōizumi

Akira Maruyama

Fujio Suga

Mr. Ito

Akio Satake

The Security Bell Man

Mutsuko Sakura

Oden Restaurant Woman

Norikazu Takeda

Zennosuke Okubo

Hajime Shirata

Kozo Harada

Masuo Fujiki

Yoshikazu Okubo

Toshio Shimamura

Oden Restaurant Owner

Yôko Chimura

Mr. Sakuma

Tomoka Hasebe

Mr. Sakuma

Toshirō Mayuzumi

Original Music Composer

Tatsuo Hamada

Production Design

Yoshisaburo Seno

Sound Director

Yûharu Atsuta

Director of Photography

Kōgo Noda

Screenplay

Yasujirō Ozu

Screenplay

Akira Aomatsu

Lighting Technician

Motoshige Oikawa

Color Timer

Tatsuo Hamada

Art Direction

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