Eijanaika (1981)

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Eijanaika

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乱世浮生 / ええじゃないか / 에에쟈나이카 / Pourquoi pas ? / Eijanaika (Qué más da) / 亂世浮生 / ¿Por qué no? / Der Dieb und die Geisha / ええじゃないか (映画)
director: Shōhei Imamura
playwright: Shōhei Imamura / 宮本研
actor: Kaori Momoi / Shigeru Izumiya / 绪形拳 / Shigeru Tsuyuguchi / Masao Kusakari
genre: Drama
region: Japan
language: Japanese / English
length: 2h 31m
release date: 1981-03-14
IMDb: tt0082313

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ええじゃないか

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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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