Eijanaika

(1981)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 18 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1981

Runtime: 151 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Сёхэй Имамура

Cast: 泉谷しげる, Каори Момои, 草刈正雄, 緒形拳, 三木のり平, 伴淳三郎, 倍賞美津子, Сигэру Цуюгути, Ако, Сёхэй Хино

Plot

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.