their silence. The two boys run off from home with a pot of rice due to hunger, but are caught by a passing policeman. They disappear for hours into the evening, until their English tutor finds them outside a station watching television. At the end of the film, the boys find out their parents have indeed purchased a television set to support a neighbour in his new job as a salesman. Jubilant, they stop their strike at once. Their English tutor and their aunt appear to be starting a fresh romance. 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 Shitara Koji as Minoru Hayashi Masahiko Shimazu as Isamu Hayashi Kyoko Izumi as Midori Maruyama Taiji Tonoyama as the door-to-door salesman Style Despite Ozu's reputation in the West as an austere and refined director, Good Morning does not shy away from depicting many of the neighborhood boys' flatulence jokes. Reception Good Morning has an 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Richard Brody of The New Yorker wrote about the film "Yasujiro Ozu’s poised images convey a bitterly ironic, scathingly radical rejection of Japanese codes of self-restraint and silence." Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader praised the film describing it as "Perhaps the most delightful of Yasujiro Ozu's late comedies". In 2009 the film was ranked at No. 36 on the list of the Greatest Japanese Films of All Time by Japanese film magazine kinema Junpo. Home media In 2011, the BFI released a Region 2 Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray + DVD). Included with this release is a standard definition presentation of I Was Born, But.... In 2017, Criterion re-released Good Morning in a Region 1 Blu-ray. The film received a 4k digital restoration for this release and is packaged alongside I Was Born, But... and a fragment of A Straightforward Boy. References External links Good Morning an essay by Rick Prelinger at the Criterion Collection DVD review of Good Morning Review at The Factual Opinion 1959 films 1959 comedy-drama films 1950s Japanese-language films Japanese comedy-drama films Remakes of Japanese films Sound film remakes of silent films Films directed by Yasujirō Ozu Films with screenplays by Yasujirō Ozu Films with screenplays by Kogo Noda Shochiku films 1959 comedy films 1959 drama films 1950s Japanese films