Good Morning

Important things are hard to say.

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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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Creators

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Yasujirō Ozu

director

Kōgo Noda

writer

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Yasujirō Ozu

writer

Cast

Keiji Sada actor

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Yoshiko Kuga actor

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Chishū Ryū actor Kuniko Miyake actor

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Haruko Sugimura actor

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Kōji Shitara actor

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Masahiko Shimazu actor

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Kyōko Izumi actor

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Taiji Tonoyama actor

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Toyo Takahashi actor Sadako Sawamura actor

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Eijirō Tōno actor

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Teruko Nagaoka actor

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Eiko Miyoshi actor

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Haruo Tanaka actor

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Akira Ōizumi actor

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Fujio Suga actor

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Akio Satake actor

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Keijirō Morozumi actor

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Mutsuko Sakura actor