ええじゃないか
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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Cast
Kaori Momoi
Shigeru Izumiya
Masao Kusakari
Ken Ogata
Junzaburō Ban
Norihei Miki
Yuko Tanaka
Shino Ikenami
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Shoichi Ozawa
Yasuaki Kurata
Shōhei Hino
河野洋平
Hiroshi Inuzuka
Mitsuko Baisho
Hideo Takamatsu
Ben Hiura
Kibaji Tankobo
Jirô Chiba
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Sanshō Shinsui
Minori Terada
Taiji Tonoyama
Kazuko Shirakawa
Nodoka Kawai
Etsuko Ikuta
Аko
Nenji Kobayashi
