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.
Credits
Good Morning Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Taiji Tonoyama
He was 43, 73 years old when he died
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as Oshiuri no Otoko |
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Yoshiko Kuga
She was 28, now 94 years old
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as Setsuko Arita |
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Fujio Suga
He was 39, 78 years old when he died
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as Itô Sensei |
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Mutsuko Sakura
She was 38, 83 years old when she died
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as Oden'ya no Nyôbô |
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Masahiko Shimazu
He was 6, now 72 years old
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as Isamu |
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Kuniko Miyake
She was 42, 76 years old when she died
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as Tamiko |
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Eiko Miyoshi
She was 65, 69 years old when she died
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as Mitsue Haraguchi |
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Haruo Tanaka
He was 47, 79 years old when he died
|
as Tatsuzô |
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Chishu Ryu
He was 54, 88 years old when he died
|
as Keitarô Hayashi |
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Teruko Nagaoka
She was 51, 102 years old when she died
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as Toyoko |
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Kôji Shitara
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as Minoru Hayashi |
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Eijirō Tōno
He was 52, 87 years old when he died
|
as Tomizawa |
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Akira Ôizumi
He was 34, 73 years old when he died
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as Akira Maruyama |
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Haruko Sugimura
She was 50, 88 years old when she died
|
as Kikue Haraguchi |
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Kyôko Izumi
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as Midori Maruyama |
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Toyo Takahashi
She was 55, 77 years old when she died
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as Shige Ôkubo |
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Yôko Chimura
|
as Sakuma Sensei |
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Masuo Fujiki
|
as Yoshikazu Ôkubo |
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Akio Satake
He was 33, 83 years old when he died
|
as Bôhan Beru no Otoko |
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Tsûsai Sugawara
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as Kyaku - Tsû-san |
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Norikazu Takeda
|
as Zennosuke Ôkubo |
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Hajime Shirata
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as Kôzô Harada |
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Sadako Sawamura
She was 50, 87 years old when she died
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as Kayoko Fukui |
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Keiji Sada
He was 32, 37 years old when he died
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as Heiichirô Fukui |
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Toshio Shimamura
|
as Oden'ya no Teishu |
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Keijirô Morozumi
|
as Junsa |
Good Morning Crew
