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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780023307
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780023307
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 22, 2000
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 29825
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1962-02
Editorial Review:
Description:
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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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 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 this is because he was probably the least technically innovative of the troika. But, that is not the same as saying he was the least accomplished. In fact, his 1959 social comedy of manners, Good Morning (Ohayo), set in a modern Tokyo suburban subdivision, is in many ways far more relevant than the more famed period pieces ... Read More
Rating:  - 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. Their lives likewise overlap, and the opportunity for a little misunderstanding and misjudgment (as in any good sitcom) quickly has its ripple effect through the whole community. Light hearted and pleasantly humorous, there are no real crises to be resolved. What we get is a celebration of daily domestic life, which is often ... Read More
Rating: - 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. His films deal with the common everyday life's situations with mothers, fathers, children, families in love, conflict, and death. Ozu first film was in 1929 and his last in 1962.
Use of Red or Blue
Since I have not seen all his films, I recognize in many, an eyecatching motif is the use of colors, namely blue and red. In Good Morning, almost every scene here ... Read More
Rating: - 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. There is a misunderstanding among the neighborhood ladies. Some club money has turned up missing. The misunderstanding is compounded by two boys, who after an argument with their parents, are told to shut up. The boys want a television set, the parents do not. The boys take their parents admonition to shut up to the extreme, they stop speaking to everybody, even the ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
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