Film

ええじゃないか (1981)

• 8 januari 1981
• 2u 31m

• Drama

Overzicht

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.

Regisseur

今村昌平

Scenaristen

今村昌平, 宮本研

Met in de hoofdrol

桃井かおり, 泉谷しげる, 草刈正雄