Best on Max: Good Morning Watch and Cast Guide

Good Morning (1959) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. Important things are hard to say.

Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, TCM, HBO Max. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

Cast

Keiji Sada as Heiichiro Fukui; Yoshiko Kuga as Setsuko Arita; Chishū Ryū as Keitaro Hayashi; Kuniko Miyake as Tamiko Hayashi; Haruko Sugimura as Kikue Haraguchi; Kōji Shitara as Minoru Hayashi; Masahiko Shimazu as Isamu Hayashi; Kyōko Izumi as Midori Maruyama

About Good Morning

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.

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