Good morning = Ohayō
(DVD)

DVD release of the 1959 feature film.

First edition statement from a preliminary screen on the film.

880-03,Special features on disc 1: new video essay on Ozu's use of humor by David Cairns; New interview with the film scholar David Bordwell ; on disc 2: Umarete wa mita keredo: otona no miru ehon = I was born, but ..., Yasujiro Ozu's 1932 silent comedy, with a score composed by Donald Sosin in 2008; Surviving 14 min. excerpt from Tokkan kozō = A straightforward boy, a 1929 silent film by Ozu ; on leaflet: an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Director of photography, Yuharu Atsuta ; film editor, Yoshiyasu Hamamura ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi.

Director of photography, Atsuta Yūharu ; editor, Hamamura Yoshiyasu ; original music, Mayuzumi Toshirō.

880-02,Sada Keiji, Kuga Yoshiko, Ryū Chishū, Miyake Kuniko, Sugimura Haruko, Shidara Koji, Shimazu Masahiko, Sawamura Sadako.

"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 Technicolor 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"--Container.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); 4:3 presentation; Dolby digital monaural.

Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.