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Release date: 05/12/1959
Popularity: 29
Original language: JA
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Good Morning
Important things are hard to say.
8
ComedyFamilyDrama
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.
Alternative titles
Good Morning
Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning
Ohayô
Bom Dia
Bom Dia
안녕하세요
Dzień dobry
Ohayou
お早よう
Доброе утро!