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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.
Mar 17, 2021 · Why Not ? (1981) by. shohei imamura. Publication date. 1981. Topics. film, cinema, movie, japanese cinema. Language. Japanese.
On the eve of the Meiji Restoration, the cataclysmic upheaval which ended Japan’s Tokugawa Shogunate, Genji returns from six years in America, only to find the life he had known irretrievably lost, his young wife sold into prostitution.
Jan 8, 1981 · With Kaori Momoi, Shigeru Izumiya, Ken Ogata, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi. 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 revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.
On the eve of the Meiji Restoration, the cataclysmic upheaval which ended Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate, Genji returns from six years in America, only to find the life he had known irretrievably lost, his young wife sold into prostitution. Discovering her in sleazy East Ryogoku, Genji is drawn...
Jan 8, 1981 · Eijanaika is a dramatization of a brief but critical moment in Japanese history when Japan emerges from two centuries of isolationism in the 1860s. This new regime proves more receptive to opening Japan up to trade from the West--particularly America.
Sep 10, 2012 · Film. Time Out says. Picking his way through the anarchy and absurdity of a society in violent transition like some oriental Makavejev, Imamura breathes bawdy life into the bones of Japanese...
