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Release Date:
May 12, 1959
Original Title:
お早よう
Alternate Titles:
Bom Dia
Dzień dobry
Good Morning
Ohayou
Ohayô
Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning
Доброе утро!
お早よう
안녕하세요
Genres:
Comedy | Drama | Family
Production Companies:
Shochiku
Production Countries:
Japan
Ratings / Certifications:
FR: TP GB: U NL: 12 PT: M/12
Runtime: 94
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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Art Direction:
Tatsuo Hamada
Color Timer:
Motoshige Oikawa
Director:
Yasujirō Ozu
Director of Photography:
Yûharu Atsuta
Editor:
Yoshiyasu Hamamura
Lighting Technician:
Akira Aomatsu
Original Music Composer:
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Producer:
Shizuo Yamanouchi
Production Design:
Tatsuo Hamada
Screenplay:
Kōgo Noda
Yasujirō Ozu
Sound Director:
Yoshisaburo Seno
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