Good Morning
1959A 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.
Acted in
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
Kôji 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
Teruko Nagaoka
as Toyoko Tomizawa
Eiko Miyoshi
as Mitsue Haraguchi
Haruo Tanaka
as Tatsuzo Haraguchi
Akira Ōizumi
as Akira Maruyama
Fujio Suga
as Mr. Ito
Akio Satake
as The Security Bell Man
Keijirō Morozumi
as Policeman
Mutsuko Sakura
as Oden Restaurant Woman
Norikazu Takeda
as Zennosuke Okubo
Yôko Chimura
as Sakuma
Hajime Shirata
as Kozo Harada
Masuo Fujiki
as Yoshikazu Okubo
Toshio Shimamura
as Oden Restaurant Owner
Tsûsai Sugawara
as Customer
Koji Shidara
Yôko Chimura
as Mr. Sakuma
Ayako Senno
Yuriko Tashiro
Yoshie Minami
Tomoka Hasebe
as Mr. Sakuma
Koji Shirotani
Yukari Yamashina
Kazuko Mitsukawa
Kôhei Kawamura
Junko Hara
Shôsuke Oni
Aiko Ikumi