eijanaika

Director: shôhei imamura

Actor: shigeru izumiya,kaori momoi,masao kusakari,ken ogata

Data Published: Thu Jan 08 1981

Genres: Drama

Key Words: edo japan,one word title,ryukyu islands,yokohama japan,slogan

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082313/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eijanaika_(film)

Description: Eijanaika is a movie starring Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, and Masao Kusakari. Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of...

Plot: The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee 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.