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.
as Heiichiro Fukui
as Setsuko Arita
as Keitaro Hayashi
as Tamiko Hayashi
as Kikue Haraguchi
as Minoru Hayashi
as Isamu Hayashi
as Midori Maruyama
as Pushy Man
as Shige Okubo
as Kayoko Fukui
as Hiroshi Tomizawa
as Toyoko Tomizawa
as Mitsue Haraguchi
as Tatsuzo Haraguchi
as Akira Maruyama
as Mr. Ito
as The Security Bell Man
as Policeman
as Oden Restaurant Woman
as Zennosuke Okubo
as Sakuma
as Kozo Harada
as Yoshikazu Okubo
as Oden Restaurant Owner
as Customer
as Mr. Sakuma
as Mr. Sakuma
