Good Morning (1959) – Filming Locations
Comedy / Family / Drama · Directed by Yasujirō Ozu · Starring Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga
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.
Where was Good Morning filmed?
- Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo – The entire film is set in and around a middle-class Tokyo residential district with family homes and local streets. Ozu filmed extensively in Tokyo's residential areas, capturing the daily rhythms of suburban family life in post-war Japan with his signature low-angle camera perspective on tatami mat level