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The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.Read moreLess
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
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The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
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Kaori MomoiIne
Shigeru IzumiyaGenji
Masao KusakariItoman
Ken OgataFurukawa
Junzaburō BanToramatsu
Norihei MikiMasuya
Yuko TanakaOmatsu
Shino IkenamiYoshino
Shigeru TsuyuguchiKinzo
Shoichi OzawaSakunojo
Yasuaki KurataHanjiro
Shōhei HinoMagoshichiExplore the crew
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Producer
- Shōhei Imamura
- Producer
- Shigemi Sugisaki
- Producer
- Shoichi Ozawa
- Producer
- Jirô Tomoda
- Director of Photography
- Shinsaku Himeda
- Original Music Composer
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Editor
- Keiichi Uraoka
- Screenplay
- Shōhei Imamura
- Screenplay
- Ken Miyamoto