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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.
Keywords
japan
parent child relationship
brotherhood
protest
inflation
consumerism
gossip
noisy neighbor
post war japan
neighborhood
criterion
japanese family
door to door salesman
family dynamics
mischievous children
town gossip
television set
boys
small talk
missing money
silence
child outsmarts adult
generational divide
farting
Casts

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

Taiji Tonoyama
Pushy Man

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

Keijirō Morozumi
Policeman

Mutsuko Sakura
Oden Restaurant Woman
Norikazu Takeda
Zennosuke Okubo
Yôko Chimura
Sakuma
Hajime Shirata
Kozo Harada
Masuo Fujiki
Yoshikazu Okubo
Toshio Shimamura
Oden Restaurant Owner

Tsûsai Sugawara
Customer
Koji Shidara
Yôko Chimura
Mr. Sakuma
Ayako Senno

Yuriko Tashiro

Yoshie Minami

Tomoka Hasebe
Mr. Sakuma
Koji Shirotani
Yukari Yamashina
Kazuko Mitsukawa
Kôhei Kawamura
Junko Hara
Shôsuke Oni
Aiko Ikumi
Crews

Yasujirō Ozu
Director
Shizuo Yamanouchi
Producer
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Original Music Composer
Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Editor
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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