Good Morning (1959)
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.
Director:
Yasujirō Ozu
Writers:
Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu.
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Keiji Sada as Heiichiro Fukui |
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Yoshiko Kuga as Setsuko Arita |
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Chishū Ryū as Keitaro Hayashi |
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Kuniko Miyake as Tamiko Hayashi |
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Haruko Sugimura as Kikue Haraguchi |
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Kōji Shitara as Minoru Hayashi |
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Masahiko Shimazu as Isamu Hayashi |
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Kyōko Izumi as Midori Maruyama |
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Taiji Tonoyama as Pushy Man |
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Toyo Takahashi as Shige Okubo |
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Sadako Sawamura as Kayoko Fukui |
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Eijirō Tōno as Hiroshi Tomizawa |
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Teruko Nagaoka as Toyoko Tomizawa |
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Eiko Miyoshi as Mitsue Haraguchi |
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Haruo Tanaka as Tatsuzo Haraguchi |
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Akira Ōizumi as Akira Maruyama |
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Fujio Suga as Mr. Ito |
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Akio Satake as The Security Bell Man |
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Keijirō Morozumi as Policeman |
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Mutsuko Sakura as Oden Restaurant Woman |
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Norikazu Takeda as Zennosuke Okubo |
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Yôko Chimura as Sakuma |
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Hajime Shirata as Kozo Harada |
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Masuo Fujiki as Yoshikazu Okubo |
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Toshio Shimamura as Oden Restaurant Owner |
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Tsûsai Sugawara as Customer |
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Koji Shidara as |
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Yôko Chimura as Mr. Sakuma |
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Ayako Senno as |
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Yuriko Tashiro as |
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Yoshie Minami as |
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Tomoka Hasebe as Mr. Sakuma |
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Koji Shirotani as |
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Yukari Yamashina as |
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Kazuko Mitsukawa as |
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Kôhei Kawamura as |
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Junko Hara as |
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Shôsuke Oni as |
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Aiko Ikumi as |
| Directing | Yasujirō Ozu | Director |
| Sound | Toshirō Mayuzumi | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Yoshisaburo Seno | Sound Director |
| Art | Tatsuo Hamada | Production Design |
| Editing | Yoshiyasu Hamamura | Editor |
| Production | Shizuo Yamanouchi | Producer |
| Camera | Yûharu Atsuta | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Kōgo Noda | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yasujirō Ozu | Screenplay |
| Lighting | Akira Aomatsu | Lighting Technician |
| Editing | Motoshige Oikawa | Color Timer |
| Art | Tatsuo Hamada | Art Direction |
