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Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the Imamura Productions, Shochiku drama flick. Eijanaika starring Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari, Ken Ogata has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 2 hr 31 min. The release date of the movie is January 8th, 1981. The movie received a user score of 62/100 on TMDb, which is informed by reviews from 18 real users.
Wondering what this story is all about? Here's the plot: "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."
