Movie
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.
Genji
Ine
Itoman
Furukawa
Masuya
Toramatsu
Oko
Kinzo
Oyoshi
Magoshichi
Yoshino
Nui
Roku
Nakazawa
Koide
Matakichi
Hanjiro
Sakunojo
Densuke
Yamikumo-dayu
Omatsu
Gon
Ijuin
Jyosyuya