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Good Morning(1959)
Status: Released
Date: 1959-05-12
77%
293 Votes
Time: 1h 34m
Important things are hard to say.
Overview:
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.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Good Morning
Top 10 Billed Cast
佐田啓二
Heiichiro Fukui
久我美子
Setsuko Arita
笠智衆
Keitaro Hayashi
三宅邦子
Tamiko Hayashi
杉村春子
Kikue Haraguchi
設楽幸嗣
Minoru Hayashi
島津雅彦
Isamu Hayashi
泉京子
Midori Maruyama
殿山泰司
Pushy Man
高橋とよ
Shige Okubo
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