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February 1962 (USA)
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Two boys go into a silence strike to pressurize their parents into buying them a TV set. full summary | full synopsis
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A Funny and Extremely Serious Comedy
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Keiji Sada | ... | Heichiro Fukui | |
| Yoshiko Kuga | ... | Setsuko Arita | |
| Chishû Ryû | ... | Keitaro Hayashi | |
| Kuniko Miyake | ... | Tamiko | |
| Haruko Sugimura | ... | Kikue Haraguchi | |
| Koji Shitara | ... | Minoru | |
| Masahiko Shimazu | ... | Isamu | |
| Kyouko Izumi | ... | Midori Maruyama | |
| Toyo Takahashi | ... | Shige Okubo | |
| Sadako Sawamura | ... | Kayoko Fukui | |
| Eijirô Tôno | ... | Tomizawa | |
| Teruko Nagaoka | ... | Mrs. Tomizawa | |
| Eiko Miyoshi | ... | Grandma Haraguchi | |
| Haruo Tanaka | ... | Haraguchi | |
| Akira Oizumi | ... | Akira Maruyama |
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Good Morning (International: English title)
Ohayou (Japan) (alternative transliteration)
Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning (USA)
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Ohayou (Japan) (alternative transliteration)
Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning (USA)
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94 min
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References The Defiant Ones (1958)
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For viewers who have seen only one or two of Ozu's statelier films -- say, "Tokyo Story" or "Equinox Flower" -- "Good Morning" will be a surprise. Two children take a vow of silence to coerce their parents into buying a television set: that's pretty much the whole plot. But what happens as a result affects almost every aspect of life in the nondescript, gossipy, elbow-to-elbow suburb in which the boys' family lives.
This is a comedy, and like all good comedies it's very serious. The boys' act of rebellion is very un-Japanese, and it threatens many of the politely ritualistic social behaviors that mask and deflect the tensions in Japanese society. Whole alliances among the village's women teeter and threaten to topple. The family's authority structure is upended, with the all-powerful father crumbling against the stubborn silence of two little boys.
What wins in the end is love -- or rather (Ozu must have found this particularly funny) love and television. The resolution will probably tear you up (it has brought moisture to the eyes of everyone I've seen it with) but it represents enormous changes in Japanese society -- the collapse of patriarchal authority, the invasion of foreign culture, and especially English-language culture, and the inexorable rise of that great leveler of aesthetics, television. Ozu saw the future, and he wasn't in it.
So naturally, he presents all this in a gentle, even sweet-natured comedy. There may be greater Ozu films, but it's hard to think of one I actually like more than "Good Morning."