Why Not? by Shōhei Imamura
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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
Shigeru Izumiya as Genji
Kaori Momoi as Ine
Masao Kusakari as Itoman
Ken Ogata as Furukawa
Norihei Miki as Masuya
Junzaburō Ban as Toramatsu
Mitsuko Baisho as Oko
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Kinzo
Ako as Oyoshi
Shōhei Hino as Magoshichi
Shino Ikenami as Yoshino
Etsuko Ikuta as Nui
Hiroshi Inuzuka as Roku
Chōichirō Kawarasaki as Nakazawa
Kazuo Kitamura as Koide
Nenji Kobayashi as Matakichi
Yasuaki Kurata as Hanjiro
Shoichi Ozawa as Sakunojo
Sanshō Shinsui as Densuke
Kazuko Shirakawa as Yamikumo-dayu
Yuko Tanaka as Omatsu
Kibaji Tankobo as Gon
Minori Terada as Ijuin
Taiji Tonoyama as Jyosyuya
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