FREE Cinema Club: GOOD MORNING at the State Theater

GOOD MORNING

Free and open to the public - First come, first serve seating
Film starts at 7pm

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.

Film | Comedy | 1h 34m | NR | Japanese | 1959

Trailer

Sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Center for Japanese Studies.
Part of CJS Film Series 2026 – Japanese Comedies