Synopsis
“A comedy of manners and satirical critique of 1950s consumerism,
Good Morning updates the silent
I Was Born, But… and broadens its humor. Two rambunctious boys living in a Tokyo suburb are determined to have a television set so that they can watch wrestling and baseball. Their father (
Chishu Ryu), who predicts that “TV will produce 100 million idiots,” refuses, and when told to shut up the boys take the command literally and zip their lips – forever. Their refusal to respond to such banalities as “ohayo” (
good morning) leads to a comedy of misunderstanding, which accelerates until everyone is in an uproar except the beatific, belligerently silent boys.” – Harvard Film Archive