Eijanaika

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Drama

Overview

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.

Keywords

shogunate
edo period
meiji period
bakumatsu
end of the samurai class

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 8, 1981
Original language: Japanese
Spoken languages: japanese
Countries: Japan
Production: Shochiku,Imamura Productions,Imamura Productions, Shochiku
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0082313