Good Morning
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.
Stephen Daldry
Director
Mia McKenna-Bruce
as
Ballet Girls
Leon Cooke
as
Special Billy Finale
Yasujirô Ozu
Director
Fujio Suga
as
Itô Sensei - Minoru's Teacher
Keijirô Morozumi
as
Junsa
Kôji Shitara
as
Minoru Hayashi
Eijirô Tôno
as
Tomizawa
Jamie Bell
as
Billy
Joe Renton
as
Gary Poulson
Julie Walters
as
Mrs. Wilkinson
Jamie Draven
as
Tony
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