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In a contemporary review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, "Eijanaika is a handsome, kaleidoscopic Japanese historical film about the years (1866-67) immediately preceding the restoration of the imperial Meiji family, which marked the triumph of the recently awakened, pro-Western movement in Japan. (It) is also an extremely difficult ...
Jan 8, 1981 · Original title: Eijanaika. 1981. 2h 31m. IMDb RATING. 6.8 /10. 690. YOUR RATING. Rate. Drama. Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura. Director. Shôhei Imamura. Writers.
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- Drama
- Shôhei Imamura
- 1981-01-08
Eijanaika. In 1867 Japan at the end of the shogunate, the samurai and nobles struggle to retain dominance, while the peasants begin a rise to power.
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Drama
- Shôhei Imamura
In 1981, Japanese director Shohei Imamura produced his film Eijanaika, which gives a deliberately historically incorrect interpretation of the events but nevertheless catches the unstable and tense atmosphere of the age. Imamura had previously helped write the 1957 Yuzo Kawashima film on the period Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate.
Eijanaika. Directed by Shohei Imamura • 1981 • Japan. Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura. Show more.
On the eve of the Meiji Restoration, the cataclysmic upheaval which ended Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate, Genji returns from six years in America, only to find the life he had known irretrievably lost, his young wife sold into prostitution.
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May 19, 1982 · SHOHEI IMAMURA'S ''Eijanaika,'' opening today at the Film Forum 1, is a handsome, kaleidoscopic Japanese historical film about the years (1866-67) immediately preceding the...
