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.
You can now watch Good Morning online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Production | Shizuo Yamanouchi | Producer |
| Directing | Yasujirō Ozu | Director |
| Art | Tatsuo Hamada | Production Design |
| Sound | Yoshisaburo Seno | Sound Director |
| Editing | Yoshiyasu Hamamura | Editor |
| Sound | Toshirō Mayuzumi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Yûharu Atsuta | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Yasujirō Ozu | Screenplay |
| Lighting | Akira Aomatsu | Lighting Technician |
| Writing | Kōgo Noda | Screenplay |
| Art | Tatsuo Hamada | Art Direction |
| Editing | Motoshige Oikawa | Color Timer |
