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Writers:
Kôgo Noda (screenplay) &
Yasujiro Ozu (screenplay)
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Release Date:
February 1962 (USA) more
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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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Cast

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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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Good Morning (International: English title)
Ohayou (Japan) (alternative transliteration)
Yasujiro Ozu's Good Morning (USA)
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94 min
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11 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Ozu's most accessible film, 27 September 2005
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Author: (anton_d_mannaseh@hotmail.com) from Calgary, Alberta -Canada

"Good Morning," is one of my favorite's films.

It means a lot to me personally, because -like all of Ozu's work- it demonstrates a brilliant understanding of the complexities of being human. It contains simple wisdom, humour, and kindness; and sadly the whole of cinema history has provided us with very few films which can make such a claim. Ozu celebrates the beauty of middle-class existence, all the while delivering a profound criticism of our tendency to permit "small talk" to dominate conversations. Ultimately though, it is the humour which makes "Good Morning" my favorite's Ozu picture, for it is a very funny movie. Very funny and very satisfying! I can hardly imagine an open-minded person not enjoying it.

Because many North American viewers have a reluctance to watch films more than a few years old, or in languages other than English, Ozu's exposure here is still extremely limited. That is unfortunate because Ozu's films are quite universal.

I feel confident that anyone could appreciate Ozu's genius in this film.

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