Good Morning

Movie

1959

1h 34m

Japanese

Comedy, Family, Drama

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7.9

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Good Morning

Movie

1959

1h 34m

Japanese

Comedy, Family, Drama

Watch on HBO (Via Hulu)

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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Cast

Heiichiro Fukui

Setsuko Arita

Keitaro Hayashi

Tamiko Hayashi

Kikue Haraguchi

Minoru Hayashi

Isamu Hayashi

Midori Maruyama

Pushy Man

Shige Okubo

Kayoko Fukui

Hiroshi Tomizawa

Toyoko Tomizawa

Mitsue Haraguchi

Tatsuzo Haraguchi

Akira Maruyama

Mr. Ito

The Security Bell Man

Keijirō Morozumi

Policeman

Mutsuko Sakura

Oden Restaurant Woman

Zennosuke Okubo

Sakuma

Kozo Harada

Yoshikazu Okubo

Oden Restaurant Owner

Directed By: Yasujirō Ozu

Written By: Yasujirō Ozu (Screenplay), Kōgo Noda (Screenplay)

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luizerl says...

4 years ago

Every frame of this movie is beautiful, looks like a painting, and the story is simple and funny.

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smallclone says...

4 years ago

Didn't expect fart jokes in an Ozu, but it's a fun comedy with a backdrop of Western influences on Japan. It's essentially about the importance of communication in families and communities (as Ozu's films often are) but with a spin on it that almost predicts the age of consumerism, technology and all that comes with it.

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