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.
Shōhei Imamura
Director
Shigeru Izumiya
Genji
Kaori Momoi
Ine
Masao Kusakari
Itoman
Ken Ogata
Furukawa
Norihei Miki
Masuya
Junzaburō Ban
Toramatsu
Mitsuko Baisho
Oko
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Kinzo
Ако
Oyoshi
子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる73%
碁盤斬り74%
るろうに剣心 京都大火編76%
切腹84%
宮本武蔵71%
十三人の刺客73%
用心棒80%
大菩薩峠77%
House of Bamboo62%
斬、70%
るろうに剣心 最終章 The Final76%
やさぐれ姐御伝 総括リンチ60%
天国と地獄84%
修羅雪姫75%
Mansfield Park61%
子連れ狼 地獄へ行くぞ！大五郎71%
犬王73%
Girl in the Box67%
影武者78%
十三人の刺客75%
