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Good Morning

"Important things are hard to say."

1959-05-12
7.717
ja 94m
ComedyFamilyDrama
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.

Director

Yasujirō Ozu

Original Music Composer

Toshirō Mayuzumi

Sound Director

Yoshisaburo Seno

Production Design

Tatsuo Hamada

Editor

Yoshiyasu Hamamura

Producer

Shizuo Yamanouchi

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Status

Released

Countries

  • Japan

Companies

  • Shochiku

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