Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

1971•2h 17m•7.3/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.3/10(62)

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.

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Production

Jinriki Hikoki Sha, Art Theatre Guild

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Hideaki Sasaki

Me

Masahiro Saito

Father

Yukiko Kobayashi

Yukiko Kobayashi

Sister

Fudeko Tanaka

Fudeko Tanaka

Grandmother

Sei Hiraizumi

Sei Hiraizumi

Mr. Omi

Keiko Niitaka

Keiko Niitaka

Midori

Akihiro Miwa

Akihiro Miwa

Maya at the Hell

J.A. Seazer

J.A. Seazer

Longhaired Poet

Izumi Suzuki

Izumi Suzuki

Female Doctor

Maki Asakawa

Prostitute on Stairway

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