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Mrs Haraguchi, angered by this snub, speculates it is Mrs Hayashi who instigates this in revenge over their earlier misunderstanding, and tells this to busybody Mrs. Tomizawa. Soon, everybody thinks Mrs Hayashi is a petty, vengeful person, and are all queueing up to return their loaned items to her.
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The film steers into a subplot concerning the local women's club monthly dues. Everyone in the neighborhood club believes that Mrs Hayashi, the treasurer, has given the dues to the chairwoman, Mrs Haraguchi, but Mrs Haraguchi denies it. They gossip amongst themselves who could have taken the money,
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Minoru and Isamu continue their strike in school, and even against their English tutor. Finally, their schoolteacher visits to find the root of 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
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As a result of this, the young boys of the Hayashi family, Minoru and Isamu, pressure their mother to buy them a television set, but their mother refuses. When their father learns of it, he asks the boys to keep quiet when they kick a tantrum. Minoru throws an anger fit, and states that adults
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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.
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always engage in pointless niceties like "good morning" and refuse to say exactly what they mean. Back in their room, Minoru and Isamu decide on a silence strike against all adults. The first neighbor to bear the brunt of this snub is Mrs Haraguchi.
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matches. (At the time of the film's release in Japan, the medium was rapidly gaining popularity.) However, their conservative parents forbid them to visit their bohemian neighbors because the wife is thought to be a
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indeed handed the dues money to Haraguchi's mother. Only later does Mrs Haraguchi realize it was her mistake (her mother being quite senile and forgetful), and she goes to apologize.
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wrote about the film "Yasujiro Ozu’s poised images convey a bitterly ironic, scathingly radical rejection of Japanese codes of self-restraint and silence."
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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
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In 2011, the BFI released a Region 2 Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray + DVD). Included with this release is a standard definition presentation of
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in a Region 1 Blu-ray. The film received a 4k digital restoration for this release and is packaged alongside
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The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, and begins with a group of boy students going home.
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evening, until their English tutor finds them outside a station watching television.
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and speculate that Mrs Haraguchi could have used the money to buy for herself a new
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Despite Ozu's reputation in the West as an austere and refined director,
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The boys are all attracted to a neighbor's house because they have a
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does not shy away from depicting many of the neighborhood boys'
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is a 1959 Japanese comedy film co-written and directed by
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Good Morning (1955 film)

Kanji
Revised Hepburn
Yasujirō Ozu
Kōgo Noda
Keiji Sada
Yoshiko Kuga
Chishū Ryū
Kuniko Miyake
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Shōchiku Films Ltd.
Yasujirō Ozu
silent film
I Was Born, But...
washing machine
television set
sumo wrestling
cabaret
Keiji Sada
Yoshiko Kuga
Chishū Ryū
Kuniko Miyake
Haruko Sugimura
Taiji Tonoyama
Tsûsai Sugawara
flatulence
Rotten Tomatoes
Richard Brody
The New Yorker

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