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Good Morning (1959)

Good Morning (1959)

Drama Comedy Family

Important things are hard to say.

Release Date: 1959, May 12
Directors: Yasujirō Ozu
Countries: Japan
Production: Shochiku
Cast: Eijirō Tōno, Taiji Tonoyama, Masahiko Shimazu, Haruo Tanaka, Eiko Miyoshi, Chishū Ryū, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake, Teruko Nagaoka, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi, Keijirō Morozumi

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.

Keywords:

family dynamics parent child relationship japan neighborhood gossip consumerism post war japan boys brotherhood protest silence japanese family mischievous children farting child outsmarts adult generational divide town gossip inflation noisy neighbor door to door salesman television set small talk missing money