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Good Morning( 1959)

TV-MAComedyFamilyDrama
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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Keiji Sada

      Heiichiro Fukui

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      Yoshiko Kuga

      Setsuko Arita

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      Chishū Ryū

      Keitaro Hayashi

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      Kuniko Miyake

      Tamiko Hayashi

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      Haruko Sugimura

      Kikue Haraguchi

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      Kōji Shitara

      Minoru Hayashi

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      Masahiko Shimazu

      Isamu Hayashi

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      Kyōko Izumi

      Midori Maruyama

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      Taiji Tonoyama

      Pushy Man

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      Toyo Takahashi

      Shige Okubo

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      Sadako Sawamura

      Kayoko Fukui

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      Eijirō Tōno

      Hiroshi Tomizawa

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      Teruko Nagaoka

      Toyoko Tomizawa

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      Eiko Miyoshi

      Mitsue Haraguchi

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      Haruo Tanaka

      Tatsuzo Haraguchi

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      Akira Ōizumi

      Akira Maruyama

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      Fujio Suga

      Mr. Ito

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      Akio Satake

      The Security Bell Man

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      Keijirō Morozumi

      Policeman

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      Mutsuko Sakura

      Oden Restaurant Woman

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      Norikazu Takeda

      Zennosuke Okubo

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      Yôko Chimura

      Sakuma

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      Hajime Shirata

      Kozo Harada

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      Masuo Fujiki

      Yoshikazu Okubo

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      Toshio Shimamura

      Oden Restaurant Owner

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      Tsûsai Sugawara

      Customer

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      Koji Shidara

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      Yôko Chimura

      Mr. Sakuma

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      Ayako Senno

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      Yuriko Tashiro

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      Yoshie Minami

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      Tomoka Hasebe

      Mr. Sakuma

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      Koji Shirotani

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      Yukari Yamashina

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      Kazuko Mitsukawa

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      Kôhei Kawamura

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      Junko Hara

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      Shôsuke Oni

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      Aiko Ikumi

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Keywords

    • japan
    • parent child relationship
    • brotherhood
    • protest
    • inflation
    • consumerism
    • gossip
    • noisy neighbor
    • post war japan
    • neighborhood
    • criterion
    • japanese family
    • door to door salesman
    • family dynamics
    • mischievous children
    • town gossip
    • television set
    • boys
    • small talk
    • missing money
    • silence
    • child outsmarts adult
    • generational divide
    • farting