Good Morning
movie
Important things are hard to say.
Released May 12, 1959
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
Keiji Sada
as
Heiichiro Fukui
Yoshiko Kuga
as
Setsuko Arita
Chishū Ryū
as
Keitaro Hayashi
Kuniko Miyake
as
Tamiko Hayashi
Haruko Sugimura
as
Kikue Haraguchi
Kōji Shitara
as
Minoru Hayashi
Masahiko Shimazu
as
Isamu Hayashi
Kyōko Izumi
as
Midori Maruyama
Taiji Tonoyama
as
Pushy Man
Toyo Takahashi
as
Shige Okubo
Sadako Sawamura
as
Kayoko Fukui
Eijirō Tōno
as
Hiroshi Tomizawa
Crew
Yasujirō Ozu
as
Director
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Toshirō Mayuzumi
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Original Music Composer
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Yoshisaburo Seno
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Sound Director
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Tatsuo Hamada
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Production Design
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Yoshiyasu Hamamura
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Editor
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Shizuo Yamanouchi
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Producer
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Yûharu Atsuta
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Director of Photography
Kōgo Noda
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Screenplay
Yasujirō Ozu
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Screenplay
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Akira Aomatsu
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Lighting Technician
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Motoshige Oikawa
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Color Timer
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Tatsuo Hamada
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Art Direction