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.
Shigeru Izumiya
Kaori Momoi
Masao Kusakari
Ken Ogata
Norihei Miki
Junzaburō Ban
Mitsuko Baisho
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Ако
Shōhei Hino
Shino Ikenami
Etsuko Ikuta
Hiroshi Inuzuka
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Kazuo Kitamura
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Sekigahara
The Return
The Lower Depths
The Samurai of Edo
The Twilight Samurai
An Osaka Story
Kinbakuka: Biniku no Mori
Histories of the Chivalrous
Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
Vengeance for Sale
Hana
Love and Honor
Incident at Blood Pass
Where did Sharaku go?
The Sword of Doom
Sanjuro
Kagemusha
Miss Hokusai
Yojimbo
