Why Not? (1981)
Original title: ええじゃないか
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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Shigeru IzumiyaGenji
Kaori MomoiIne
Masao KusakariItoman
Ken OgataFurukawa
Norihei MikiMasuya
Junzaburō BanToramatsu
Mitsuko BaishoOko
Shigeru TsuyuguchiKinzo
АкоOyoshi
Shōhei HinoMagoshichi
Shino IkenamiYoshino
Etsuko IkutaNuiKeywords
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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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Why Not? has a runtime of 151 minutes.
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