Good Morning
94 min
1959
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Good Morning
94 min
1959
7.7
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.
Country
Released
12 May, 1959
japan
parent child relationship
brotherhood
protest
inflation
consumerism
gossip
noisy neighbor
post war japan
neighborhood
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
