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Good Morning

U1h 34m2011Yasujirō Ozu
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"Important things are hard to say."

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.

ComedyFamilyDramaShort
JapanParent Child RelationshipBrotherhoodProtestInflationConsumerismGossipNoisy NeighborPost War JapanNeighborhood

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What is Good Morning (2011) about?

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…

Who stars in Good Morning?

Good Morning stars Keiji Sada (Heiichiro Fukui), Yoshiko Kuga (Setsuko Arita), Chishū Ryū (Keitaro Hayashi), Kuniko Miyake (Tamiko Hayashi), Haruko Sugimura (Kikue Haraguchi). The film was directed by Yasujirō Ozu.

How long is Good Morning?

Good Morning has a runtime of 1 min and premiered in 2011. It is rated U.

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