Good Morning (1959)
Directed by Yasujiro Ozu
Genres - Comedy, Drama |
Sub-Genres - Domestic Comedy, Family Drama |
Run Time - 93 min. |
Countries - Japan |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Perry Seibert
Yasujiro Ozu's Ohayo (Good Morning) is a comedy about a pair of boys who bring much trouble to their family and community by refusing to do very basic activities. The boys desire a television, but their father refuses. They are so insistent that the father eventually commands them to be quiet. They take him quite literally and refuse to speak at all, not even a typical polite morning greeting. Their impoliteness begins to weigh down both the family and the town as it goes against the ordered social structure of Japanese culture. The film is a remake of Ozu's earlier 1932 silent film I Was Born, But...
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mute, mores, custom [habit or practice], Japanese [nationality], television, family