Why Not?
Why Not?

Why Not?

6.1

2 hr 31 min

1981-01-08

17

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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Characters

Shigeru Izumiya

Shigeru Izumiya

Genji

Kaori Momoi

Kaori Momoi

Ine

Masao Kusakari

Masao Kusakari

Itoman

Ken Ogata

Ken Ogata

Furukawa

Norihei Miki

Norihei Miki

Masuya

Junzaburō Ban

Junzaburō Ban

Toramatsu

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