Ohayo / Good Morning (1959) :
Brief Review -
Yasujiro Ozu adapts his own Children Oriented Classic "I Was Born But.." to make another FINE film. Ohayo is loosely based on Ozu's silent classic 'I Was Born But..' (1932) with not little but many major changes in the conflicts. However, the main characters remain same like before as we meet two children who are unhappy with their parents. Ohayo brings more supporting characters as it involves the entire Neighborhood in the narrative and also adds one more character of Aunt in the family and her emerging love-story as well. The film takes place in suburban Tokyo where two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set. With the pacy runtime of around 95 minutes, Ohayo begins working very soon than expected. I thought it would take almost half of runtime to establish the characters and set the storyline but it happened much before and by the halftime it had already striked with the main idea. It begins on a funny note and believe i was expecting nothing different after seeing 'I Was Born But' but you know the dialogues have a made a big difference here. That humour during conversations was too good and pleasant. The known cast members like Ryu, Sada and Kuga give fine performances as expected but the child artists came as a big surprise. Both the kids look very cute and their performing ability totally surprised me. What this film lacks is emotional touch which could have taken it up. I remember how i was in tears while watching the climax scene of 'I Was Born But' and that impact has stayed with which reduced one bit of Ohayo. Nevertheless, Ozu still makes a Fine film that can be viewed for sure even with good expectations. Not just a TV set but Ohayo brings a lot of happiness too.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.
Yasujiro Ozu adapts his own Children Oriented Classic "I Was Born But.." to make another FINE film. Ohayo is loosely based on Ozu's silent classic 'I Was Born But..' (1932) with not little but many major changes in the conflicts. However, the main characters remain same like before as we meet two children who are unhappy with their parents. Ohayo brings more supporting characters as it involves the entire Neighborhood in the narrative and also adds one more character of Aunt in the family and her emerging love-story as well. The film takes place in suburban Tokyo where two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set. With the pacy runtime of around 95 minutes, Ohayo begins working very soon than expected. I thought it would take almost half of runtime to establish the characters and set the storyline but it happened much before and by the halftime it had already striked with the main idea. It begins on a funny note and believe i was expecting nothing different after seeing 'I Was Born But' but you know the dialogues have a made a big difference here. That humour during conversations was too good and pleasant. The known cast members like Ryu, Sada and Kuga give fine performances as expected but the child artists came as a big surprise. Both the kids look very cute and their performing ability totally surprised me. What this film lacks is emotional touch which could have taken it up. I remember how i was in tears while watching the climax scene of 'I Was Born But' and that impact has stayed with which reduced one bit of Ohayo. Nevertheless, Ozu still makes a Fine film that can be viewed for sure even with good expectations. Not just a TV set but Ohayo brings a lot of happiness too.
RATING - 7/10*
By - #samthebestest.