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Why Not? (1981)

ALL 01/08/1981 (ja) Drama 151 Min
  • Release
    01/08/1981
  • Production
    Imamura Productions, Shochiku
  • Rotten tomato
    64%
  • Original title
    ええじゃないか
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Shōhei Imamura

    Director

  2. Story



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Why Not? (1981) 151 Min

ALL 01/08/1981 (ja)
Drama
  • Release 01/08/1981
  • Production
    Imamura Productions, Shochiku
  • Original title ええじゃないか
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Shōhei Imamura

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Keiichi Uraoka

    Editor

  4. Shōhei Imamura, Shoichi Ozawa, Shigemi Sugisaki, Jirô Tomoda

    Producer



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