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Good Morning - Criterion Collection (1962)

Starring: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga Director: Yasujiro Ozu Rating: Unrated Format: DVD

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Actors: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura
Directors: Yasujiro Ozu
Writers: Yasujiro Ozu, K�go Noda
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: Japanese (Dolby Digital 1.0)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
DVD Release Date: August 22, 2000
Run Time: 94 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

ASIN: 0780023307
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #50,014 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
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By the time he made Good Morning in 1959, Yasujiro Ozu had completely eliminated camera movement from his uniquely simple but elegant directorial style. He chose instead to emphasize static but meticulously purposeful compositions that rarely, if ever, wavered from their recognizable low-angle perspective. In Good Morning, this observational approach is put to sublime use to establish setting (a late-'50s Tokyo suburb) and to view the world through the eyes of the film's central characters—-two young brothers who take a mutual vow of silence to protest their parents' refusal to buy a TV set. Their father claims that television will create "a million idiots," while their mother is angered by the boys' neglect of schoolwork in favor of watching sumo wrestling on a neighbor's TV.

In Ozu's hands, this sublimely simple conflict inspires a comedic exploration of Japan at the dawn of its electronic age, when consumerism and materialism are in vogue, salesmen solicit their wares in constant door-to-door visits, and even the purchase of a washing machine can prompt neighbors into a frenzy of gossipy speculation. Funniest of all are the conspiratorial brothers, who play an amusing variation of "pull my finger" (proving that even great directors can indulge a fart joke if they choose), and employ their silent strategy with the stubbornness that only children can get away with. Through it all, Ozu develops a handful of intermingling themes of love, communication, goodwill, and the changing of societal traditions. Utterly simple on the surface, Good Morning reveals its complexity in careful proportion, with the affectionate humanity that was Ozu's greatest gift. --Jeff Shannon

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Ozu's hilarious Technicolor re-working of his silent I Was Born, But. . ., Good Morning (Ohayo) is the story of two young boys in suburban Tokyo who take a vow of silence after their parents refuse to buy them a television set. Shot from the perspective of the petulant brothers, Good Morning is an enchantingly satirical portrait of family life that gives rise to gags about romance, gossip, and the consumerism of modern Japan.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, funny but look below the surface!, October 3, 2000

By	Mark L. Malaby (Tampa, Fl USA) - See all my reviews

This is a study in layers of meaning, layers so fine they are almost transparent. On the surface this is a comedy of misunderstandings, stereotypes, and intergenerational conflict. Below that this is a photographer's film. I think the color is intentional - Ozu used agfa stock which had a slightly unreal quality to it. Each shot is carefully composed, and once you're into it, quite beautiful. Below that, the running comment is how language is as important to life as passing gas. Even deeper, life is changing quickly - the economy is changing right under the parents' noses - beatniks, salesmen, American electronics, unemployment, forced retirement. Pretty heavy stuff for a scatalogical comedy. Finally, optomistically even, Ozu suggests that for love, language is relatively unimportant, and action is the real substance of character - be it helping a friend start over, smiling while being a stern father, or choosing to ride the train with a potential mate, even if you can't afford to marry. A comedy that is high art - with fart jokes - how can you go wrong?

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4.0 out of 5 stars Delightful Sitcom Bears Ozu's Depth and Then Some, July 2, 2005

By	Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Flatulence seems to be an odd way of lending a framework to a film, but leave it to filmmaking master Yasujiro Ozu to use it as a metaphor for the meaninglessness of "small talk" between people who cannot be candid with one another. The title of this 1959 movie, "Ohay� (Good Morning)", is indeed the salutation but also from Ozu's perspective, a symbolic expression of how the Japanese avoid confrontation and put a strong value on etiquette. One of Ozu's late period color films, this is a very cute comedy which on the surface, seems like an extended episode of "Leave It to Beaver" especially in exhibiting the speedy Americanization of Japan since WWII. Even the color palette seems to evoke the muted McCarthy-era colors of the Universal comedies release around the same time. What remains consistent are Ozu's signature visual compositions - the use of the hillside to place the horizon in the middle of the frame, the use of silhouettes against the hillside, the movement of figures darting between the identical homes.

Set in a shoebox-tight housing community in Tokyo, the plot seamlessly interweaves the activities of five households - four of the more traditional variety and the fifth, a young beatnik couple who has the prized possession of the neighborhood, a TV set, which draws all the children in like clockwork after school. In the meantime, the housewives discover their association dues are missing and in "Peyton Place"-style, rumors swirl that the culprit is the woman who just bought a washing machine. Further subplots involve an unemployed English teacher, who can only speak banalities to the woman he loves; an older unemployed man who habitually gets drunk at the local bar and can't find his own home since they all look alike; and the funniest about two young brothers, the older particularly obstreperous in furiously sharing his all-too-perceptive observations of the adults - and practicing a strike of silence when their parents refuse to buy a TV set. Of course, that doesn't prevent the brothers and their friends from playing competitive rounds of "pull my finger" - a tap on the forehead yields a forced fart.

The performances are charming and quite undemanding with several members of Ozu's regular troupe present - Chishu Ryu and Kuniko Miyake (the father and older son's wife in "Tokyo Story") as the put-upon parents of the TV-demanding brothers; Haruko Sugimura (the petty daughter in "Tokyo Story") as the accused dues pilferer; and Toyoko Takahashi (the Onomichi neighbor in "Tokyo Story") as another of the gossipy housewives. As the young people unable to articulate their feelings for each other, Keiji Sada is the English teacher and Yoshiko Kuga is the boys' shy aunt, who couriers the documents for translation. And as the brothers, 13-year old Koji Shitara plays Minoru and seven-year old Masahiko Shimazu is Isamu, the latter particularly adorable when mimicking his older brother. This movie is certainly not in the class of "Tokyo Story" or "Floating Weeds", but I doubt if Ozu intended it to be. It's just a gentle, well-coordinated, sometimes hilarious poke at Japanese cultural traditions, a parable masquerading as a family comedy. Personally this is the Ozu film I can relate to the most since it speaks to my generation of Japanese-born Americans. The DVD package from the Criterion Collection is surprisingly sparse - no audio commentary, no trailer - but the video transfer and sound quality are excellent.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Slight Ozu, not "second-rate" Ozu, March 14, 2000

By	Rajesh Balkrishnan (Winston-Salem, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good Morning (AKA Ohayo) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

With all due respect to the previous reviewer, I do not belive that Ozu has ever made a "second-rate" film. Good Morning is cheerful and slight, but it is a charming comedy of manners, and is a refreshing change of style for a director much more well recognized for his domestic serious drams on meditations on life and the transience of human existence. I will agree that it quite does not pack the punch of "I was Born but..", but is is very charming and entertaining in its own way. I am glad that Ozu was able to leave us with the beautiful swan-song "Autumn Afternoon" shot in lovely color, as a fond remembrance of his genius.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good comedy
Of the Big Three Japanese film directors from last century, who were known in the West, Kenji Mizoguchi, Akira Kurosawa, and Yasujiro Ozu, Ozu is by far the least well known, and... Read more

Published 10 months ago by Cosmoetica

5.0 out of 5 stars Light-hearted domestic comedy . . .
This is Ozu at his best, a nicely crafted ensemble piece about several suburban families living in close proximity - so much so that their houses seem to open up into each other... Read more

Published 17 months ago by Ronald Scheer

5.0 out of 5 stars Amusing and satirical exam of communication
Once you have watched an Ozu film, you will recognize it clearly as his. He often casts the same actors to fulfill roles. Read more

Published on June 26, 2007 by Rizzo

4.0 out of 5 stars Ozu, Most Japanese of the Japanese directors
Ozu has been called the most Japanese of all Japanese directors, and for good reason, he is. Ohayo (Good Morning) is Ozu at his Japanese best. Read more

Published on February 26, 2006 by Ronald L. Sayles

5.0 out of 5 stars Ignorant the previous review
Who obviously knows nothing about Ozu or his canon of films. This is one of Ozu's pure comedies, and one of his best. Hopefully Criterion will re-issue it with more features.

Published on September 2, 2005 by Matthew Brewer

4.0 out of 5 stars Cinema - from the perspective of children
This is one of the best movies starring children I have ever seen - Ozu embraces their viewpoint - often litterally from their eye level. Read more

Published on October 24, 2004 by Stalwart Kreinblaster

5.0 out of 5 stars Pull my finger
Two petulant little brats fart their way to a new T.V. set. You think I'm joking, don't you.

Published on October 4, 2004 by Paul Hrissikopoulos

3.0 out of 5 stars Japanese comedy comes the US
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.

This film is probably the first Japanese comedy that was released in the US. Read more

Published on June 1, 2004 by Ted M.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
There is nothing 'minor' or 'little' about this movie; it is thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying. Very good print quality. Read more

Published on February 5, 2004 by C. Rubin

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but Slow
Admittedly, this is the only Ozu film I've seen. But I do have an opinion on it.

The film eventually adds up to something, a slightly interesting meditation on the nature of... Read more

Published on March 5, 2003 by Scott McFarland

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