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.
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Film Cast:
- Heiichiro Fukui: Keiji Sada
- Setsuko Arita: Yoshiko Kuga
- Keitaro Hayashi: Chishū Ryū
- Tamiko Hayashi: Kuniko Miyake
- Kikue Haraguchi: Haruko Sugimura
- Minoru Hayashi: Kôji Shitara
- Isamu Hayashi: Masahiko Shimazu
- Midori Maruyama: Kyōko Izumi
- Pushy Man: Taiji Tonoyama
- Shige Okubo: Toyo Takahashi
- Kayoko Fukui: Sadako Sawamura
- Hiroshi Tomizawa: Eijirō Tōno
- Toyoko Tomizawa: Teruko Nagaoka
- Mitsue Haraguchi: Eiko Miyoshi
- Tatsuzo Haraguchi: Haruo Tanaka
- Akira Maruyama: Akira Ōizumi
- Mr. Ito: Fujio Suga
- The Security Bell Man: Akio Satake
- Policeman: Keijirō Morozumi
- Oden Restaurant Woman: Mutsuko Sakura
- Zennosuke Okubo: Norikazu Takeda
- Mr. Sakuma: Yôko Chimura
- Kozo Harada: Hajime Shirata
- Yoshikazu Okubo: Masuo Fujiki
- Oden Restaurant Owner: Toshio Shimamura
- Customer: Tsûsai Sugawara
- …: Koji Shidara
- …: Ayako Senno
- …: Yuriko Tashiro
- …: Yoshie Minami
- Mr. Sakuma: Tomoka Hasebe
- …: Koji Shirotani
- …: Yukari Yamashina
- …: Kazuko Mitsukawa
- …: Kôhei Kawamura
- …: Junko Hara
- …: Shôsuke Oni
- …: Aiko Ikumi
Film Crew:
- Producer: Shizuo Yamanouchi
- Screenplay: Yasujirō Ozu
- Art Direction: Tatsuo Hamada
- Sound Director: Yoshisaburo Seno
- Editor: Yoshiyasu Hamamura
- Original Music Composer: Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Director of Photography: Yûharu Atsuta
- Lighting Technician: Akira Aomatsu
- Screenplay: Kōgo Noda
- Color Timer: Motoshige Oikawa
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