Good Morning
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.
Cast
Keiji Sada
as Heiichiro Fukui
Yoshiko Kuga
as Setsuko Arita
Chishū Ryū
as Keitaro Hayashi
Kuniko Miyake
as Tamiko Hayashi
Haruko Sugimura
as Kikue Haraguchi
Kōji Shitara
as Minoru Hayashi
Masahiko Shimazu
as Isamu Hayashi
Kyōko Izumi
as Midori Maruyama
Taiji Tonoyama
as Pushy Man
Toyo Takahashi
as Shige Okubo
