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7.3
/10
86 Ratings

EIJANAIKA

Directed by Shôhei Imamura
Japan, 1981
Comedy, Drama
  • 151151 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.