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Why Not?

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1981
2h 31m
Japanese
Drama
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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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Cast

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Shigeru Izumiya
Kaori Momoi
Masao Kusakari
Ken Ogata
Furukawa
Norihei Miki
Junzabur Ban
Mitsuko Baisho
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Ako
Oyoshi
Shhei Hino
Magoshichi
Shino Ikenami
Etsuko Ikuta
Hiroshi Inuzuka
Chichir Kawarasaki
Kazuo Kitamura
Nenji Kobayashi
Yasuaki Kurata
Shoichi Ozawa
Sansh Shinsui
Kazuko Shirakawa
Yamikumo-dayu
Yko Tanaka
Kibaji Tankobo
Minori Terada
Taiji Tonoyama
Directed By: Shōhei Imamura
Written By: Shōhei Imamura (Screenplay), Ken Miyamoto (Screenplay)

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