Eijanaika (film)

Infobox Film | name = Eijanaika / Why Not?


caption = DVD cover for "Eijanaika" (1981)
director = Shohei Imamura
producer = Shohei Imamura
Shoichi Ozawa
Shigemi Sugisaki
Jiro Tomoda
writer = Hisashi Yamauchi
starring = Kaori Momoi
Shigeru Izumiya
Ken Ogata
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Masao Kusakari
Yûko Tanaka
Mitsuko Baisho
music = Shinichirô Ikebe
cinematography = Sinsaku Himeda (as Masahisa Himeda)
editing = Keiichi Uraoka
distributor = Imamura Productions, Shochiku Films Ltd., Beverly Pictures (USA)
released = March 14, 1981 (Japan); January 8, 1981 (USA)
runtime = 151 min.
language = Japanese
budget =
imdb_id = 0082313
awards = Japanese Academy Award, Best Supporting Actress: Yûko Tanaka, Newcomer of the Year: Yûko Tanaka
Blue Ribbon Award, Best Supporting Actress: Yûko Tanaka
Hochi Film Award: Best Supporting Actress: Yûko Tanaka
Mainichi Film Concours: Best Sound Recording: Shôtarô Yoshida

nihongo|"Eijanaika" or "Why Not?"|ええじゃないか |Ee ja nai ka is a 1981 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.

Plot

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee 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 Kokyo, which turns into a . Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.

ee also

* 1981 in film

External links

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* [http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/eijanaika/about.php Eijanaika] at Rotten Tomatoes