Good Morning

1959 · TMDB 7.7 · お早よう

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

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 Yoshiko Kuga Chishū Ryū Kuniko Miyake Haruko Sugimura Kōji Shitara Masahiko Shimazu Kyōko Izumi Taiji Tonoyama Toyo Takahashi Sadako Sawamura Eijirō Tōno

Director · Yasujirō Ozu Producer · Shizuo Yamanouchi Writer · Yasujirō Ozu Writer · Kōgo Noda Cinematography · Yûharu Atsuta Composer · Toshirō Mayuzumi Editor · Yoshiyasu Hamamura

Runtime: 94 min
Released: 1959-05-12
Studio: Shochiku
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
TMDB score: 7.7

Comedy Family Drama

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