Shohei Imamura's Japan June 8, 2007
2625 Durant Ext
Berkeley, California 94720
Berkeley, California 94720
The Japanese master Shohei Imamura is famous for the controversial subject matter and raw energy of his films. Imamura's Japan is a sensual and often cruel universe untouched by the tea ceremony, Zen, or conventional gentility.
Added by rybesh on May 28, 2007
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Eijanaika: The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("ain't it great?!") 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 massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.