Eijanaika (film)
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| Eijanaika / Why Not? | |
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 DVD cover for Eijanaika (1981) |
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| Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
| Produced by | Shohei Imamura Shoichi Ozawa Shigemi Sugisaki Jiro Tomoda |
| Written by | Hisashi Yamauchi |
| Starring | Kaori Momoi Shigeru Izumiya Ken Ogata Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Masao Kusakari Yûko Tanaka Mitsuko Baisho |
| Music by | Shinichirô Ikebe |
| Cinematography | Sinsaku Himeda (as Masahisa Himeda) |
| Editing by | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Distributed by | Imamura Productions, Shochiku Films Ltd., Beverly Pictures (USA) |
| Release date(s) | March 14, 1981 (Japan); January 8, 1981 (USA) |
| Running time | 151 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
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Eijanaika or Why Not? (ええじゃないか Ee ja nai ka?) is a 1981 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.
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The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("ain't it great?!") 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 Kokyo, 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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