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Why Not?

The Criterion Channel

Why Not?

2h 31 min

1981

Japan

6.8

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.

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Cast

Kaori Momoi

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Shigeru Izumiya

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Ken Ogata

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Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

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Masao Kusakari

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Mitsuko Baishô

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Tomio Aoki

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Junzaburô Ban

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