Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Apr 24, 1971

2h 17m

★ 7.3

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Jinriki Hikoki Sha

Art Theatre Guild

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Cast

Hideaki Sasaki

Father

Masahiro Saito

Sister

Yukiko Kobayashi

Grandmother

Fudeko Tanaka

Mr. Omi

Sei Hiraizumi

Midori

Keiko Niitaka

Maya at the Hell

Akihiro Miwa

Longhaired Poet

J.A. Seazer

Female Doctor

Izumi Suzuki

Prostitute on Stairway

Maki Asakawa

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