Important things are hard to say.
Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exactly that--refusing to utter a word. The boys' silence ultimately puts the whole neighborhood into turmoil.
Directed byYasujirō Ozu
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Language
- JA
- Released
- May 12, 1959
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Cast & crew
Keiji Sada
Heiichiro Fukui
Yoshiko Kuga
Setsuko Arita
Chishū Ryū
Keitaro Hayashi
Kuniko Miyake
Tamiko Hayashi
Haruko Sugimura
Kikue Haraguchi
Kōji Shitara
Minoru Hayashi
Masahiko Shimazu
Isamu Hayashi
Kyōko Izumi
Midori Maruyama
Taiji Tonoyama
Pushy Man
Toyo Takahashi
Shige Okubo
- Directed by
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Written by
- Kōgo Noda
Yasujirō Ozu - Produced by
- Shizuo Yamanouchi
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