Why Not? (1981) - Drama Movies 151 minutes. Eijanaika, Ну и чёрт с ним!, Ээдзянайка, Почему нет?, 좋지 아니한가. 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. edo period, shogunate, meiji period, end of the samurai class, bakumatsu
Why Not? (1981)
Eijanaika, Ну и чёрт с ним!, Ээдзянайка, Почему нет?, 좋지 아니한가-
Released: Jan 08, 1981
Runtime: 151 minutes
: 4.6/10 by 15 users
Crew: Shōhei Imamura (Director), Shōhei Imamura (Producer), Shigemi Sugisaki (Producer), Shoichi Ozawa (Producer), Jirô Tomoda (Producer), Nobutsugu Tsubomi (Production Manager)
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.
