Good Morning [Ohayô] **** (1959, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kôji Shitara, Masahiko Shimazu) – Classic Movie Review 9671

Good Morning [Ohayô] (1959) is a gently mocking Japanese comedy of social manners from director Yasujirô Ozu that centres on the refusal of Keitarô Hayashi (Chishû Ryû) to buy a television set for his two sons Minoru Hayashi and Isamu Hayashi (Kôji Shitara and Masahiko Shimazu) living in a Tokyo suburb.

The boys then take a vow of silence to force their parents to buy them a TV, which causes family and neighbourly upheaval.

Strongly acted and handled with a fine eye for humour by a director best known for his dramas, Good Morning [Ohayô] entertains and provokes as only the best cinema can.

It is written by Kôgo Noda and Yasujirô Ozu.

This time, it is short, at 94 minutes, and in colour.

Ozu’s most famous film is Tokyo Story (1953) but he is also remembered for Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1951), The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), Floating Weeds (1959), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).

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