Good Morning
お早よう
Release: 1959-05-12
·Runtime: 94m
·★ 7.7
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Shochiku
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Cast
Teruko Nagaoka
as Toyoko Tomizawa
Kyōko Izumi
as Midori Maruyama
Toyo Takahashi
as Shige Okubo
Tsûsai Sugawara
as Customer
Mutsuko Sakura
as Oden Restaurant Woman
Keiji Sada
as Heiichiro Fukui
Yoshiko Kuga
as Setsuko Arita
Masahiko Shimazu
as Isamu Hayashi
Haruo Tanaka
as Tatsuzo Haraguchi
Keijirō Morozumi
as Policeman
Yoshie Minami
Kōji Shitara
as Minoru Hayashi
Haruko Sugimura
as Kikue Haraguchi
Taiji Tonoyama
as Pushy Man
Eijirō Tōno
as Hiroshi Tomizawa
Fujio Suga
as Mr. Ito
Yuriko Tashiro
Chishū Ryū
as Keitaro Hayashi
Tomoka Hasebe
as Mr. Sakuma
Akira Ōizumi
as Akira Maruyama
Kuniko Miyake
as Tamiko Hayashi
Sadako Sawamura
as Kayoko Fukui
Eiko Miyoshi
as Mitsue Haraguchi
