Overview - Good Morning

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.

Cast

• Name: Keiji Sada

  Character: Heiichiro Fukui

  Popularity: 0.3688

  

• Name: Yoshiko Kuga

  Character: Setsuko Arita

  Popularity: 0.4417

  

• Name: Chishū Ryū

  Character: Keitaro Hayashi

  Popularity: 0.5002

  

• Name: Kuniko Miyake

  Character: Tamiko Hayashi

  Popularity: 0.289

  

• Name: Haruko Sugimura

  Character: Kikue Haraguchi

  Popularity: 0.3141

  

• Name: Kōji Shitara

  Character: Minoru Hayashi

  Popularity: 1.6393

  

• Name: Masahiko Shimazu

  Character: Isamu Hayashi

  Popularity: 1.4457

  

• Name: Kyōko Izumi

  Character: Midori Maruyama

  Popularity: 0.1949