Comedy Family Drama
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.
Directed by
Yasujirō Ozu
Haruo Tanaka
Tatsuzo Haraguchi
Toyo Takahashi
Shige Okubo
Eiko Miyoshi
Mitsue Haraguchi
Akira Ōizumi
Akira Maruyama
Sadako Sawamura
Kayoko Fukui
Yoshiko Kuga
Setsuko Arita
Haruko Sugimura
Kikue Haraguchi
Chishū Ryū
Keitaro Hayashi
Kuniko Miyake
Tamiko Hayashi
Mutsuko Sakura
Oden Restaurant Woman
Keiji Sada
Heiichiro Fukui
Taiji Tonoyama
Pushy Man
Fujio Suga
Mr. Ito
Eijirō Tōno
Hiroshi Tomizawa
Yoshie Minami
Yuriko Tashiro
Masahiko Shimazu
Isamu Hayashi
Teruko Nagaoka
Toyoko Tomizawa
Kōji Shitara
Minoru Hayashi
Keijirō Morozumi
Policeman
Kyōko Izumi
Midori Maruyama
Tomoka Hasebe
Mr. Sakuma
Tsûsai Sugawara
Customer
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
Koji Shidara
Ayako Senno
Koji Shirotani
Yukari Yamashina
Kazuko Mitsukawa
Kôhei Kawamura
Junko Hara
Shôsuke Oni
Aiko Ikumi

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