Film

Good Morning

1959 · 1h 34m · Comedy · Family · Drama

Important things are hard to say.

IMDb

7.8

Rotten Tomatoes

94%

Metacritic

87

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

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

• Yasujirō OzuDirector · Screenplay
• Kōgo NodaScreenplay
• Shizuo YamanouchiProducer
• Yûharu AtsutaDirector of Photography
• Toshirō MayuzumiOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshiyasu HamamuraEditor

1959 - Good Morning Trailer

Release date

May 12, 1959

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

TP

Genres

Comedy, Family, Drama

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