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Why Not?
1981, Jan 08
2h 31m
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.
Directed by
Shōhei Imamura
Yuko Tanaka
Omatsu
Minori Terada
Ijuin
Kaori Momoi
Ine
Yasuaki Kurata
Hanjiro
Mitsuko Baisho
Oko
Nenji Kobayashi
Matakichi
Ken Ogata
Furukawa
Taiji Tonoyama
Jyosyuya
Kazuko Shirakawa
Yamikumo-dayu
Shōhei Hino
Magoshichi
Masao Kusakari
Itoman
Shigeru Izumiya
Genji
Junzaburō Ban
Toramatsu
Kazuo Kitamura
Koide
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Nakazawa
Shoichi Ozawa
Sakunojo
Norihei Miki
Masuya
Shino Ikenami
Yoshino
Etsuko Ikuta
Nui
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Kinzo
Hiroshi Inuzuka
Roku
Ако
Oyoshi
Sanshō Shinsui
Densuke
Kibaji Tankobo
Gon
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