A lighthearted spin on the perennial theme of these challenges of intergenerational relationships of director Yasujiro Ozu Morning tells the story of two young boys that stop after their parents refuse to obtain a television set, speaking in demonstration. Ozu weaves an abundance of subtle gags through a family group portrait as those of the films that are dramatic , mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and place at a suburb of Tokyo at which house-wives gossip about the neighbors' brand new washing machine and jobless husbands search for work as door-to-door salesmen, this enchanting comedy refashions Ozu's own silent classic I Was Born, But... to softly satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.