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.
佐田啓二
as Heiichiro Fukui
久我美子
as Setsuko Arita
笠智衆
as Keitaro Hayashi
三宅邦子
as Tamiko Hayashi
杉村春子
as Kikue Haraguchi
設楽幸嗣
as Minoru Hayashi
島津雅彦
as Isamu Hayashi
泉京子
as Midori Maruyama
殿山泰司
as Pushy Man
高橋とよ
as Shige Okubo
沢村貞子
as Kayoko Fukui
東野英治郎
as Hiroshi Tomizawa
