Why Not?
Drama|
6/10
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.
泉谷しげる
桃井かおり
草刈正雄
緒形拳
三木のり平
伴淳三郎
倍賞美津子
露口茂
亜湖
火野正平
池波志乃
生田悦子
犬塚弘
河原崎長一郎
北村和夫
小林稔侍
倉田保昭
小沢昭一
深水三章
白川和子
田中裕子
丹古母鬼馬二
寺田農
殿山泰司
