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Good Morning
Comedy, Drama, Family - 1959
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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.
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Rated:
NOT RATED
Runtime:
94 min
Release date:
12 May 1959
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
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Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
[Ozu's] sense of generational conflict in a society at risk from within is here at its sharpest and most anarchic.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
1 Jul 2013
fresh:
Perhaps the most delightful of Yasujiro Ozu's late comedies.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
20 May 2011
fresh:
A brimming sense of life, in other words, gradually transforms the small talk into a richly devious portrait of humanity being human.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
Cozy but tepid.
– ,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
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