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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Name: Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Director: Shūji Terayama
Genre: Drama
Released: 1971
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Yukiko Kobayashi, Fudeko Tanaka, Sei Hiraizumi

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense familial dysfunction, psychosexual alienation, and existentialist malaise.

1971 · Directed by Shūji Terayama · 137 min · Drama · 36 frames

Crew

Written by: Shūji Terayama
Cinematography: Masayoshi Sukita, Seizō Sengen
Edited by: Keiichi Uraoka
Music: J.A. Seazer, Ichiro Araki, Itsuro Shimoda, Kuni Kawachi
Produced by: Shūji Terayama, Eiko Kujo

Cast

Hideaki Sasaki as Me
Masahiro Saito as Father
Yukiko Kobayashi as Sister
Fudeko Tanaka as Grandmother
Sei Hiraizumi as Mr. Omi
Keiko Niitaka as Midori
Akihiro Miwa as Maya at the Hell
J.A. Seazer as Longhaired Poet
Izumi Suzuki as Female Doctor
Maki Asakawa as Prostitute on Stairway

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Studios: Jinriki Hikoki Sha, Art Theatre Guild
Themes: dysfunctional family, art house, avant-garde, psychedelic, japanese new wave

More by Shūji Terayama

Pastoral: To Die in the Country — 1974
Fruits of Passion — 1981

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