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.
Akio Satake
The Security Bell Man
Norikazu Takeda
Zennosuke Okubo
Yôko Chimura
Sakuma
Hajime Shirata
Kozo Harada
Masuo Fujiki
Yoshikazu Okubo
Toshio Shimamura
Oden Restaurant Owner
Yôko Chimura
Mr. Sakuma
Shizuo Yamanouchi
Producer
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Original Music Composer
Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Editor
Tatsuo Hamada
Production Design
Yoshisaburo Seno
Sound Director
Yûharu Atsuta
Director of Photography
Akira Aomatsu
Lighting Technician
Motoshige Oikawa
Color Timer
Tatsuo Hamada
Art Direction