Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

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.

Directed by Shūji Terayama

Top cast

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Hideaki Sasaki

Me

M

Masahiro Saito

Father

Yukiko Kobayashi

Sister

Fudeko Tanaka

Grandmother

Sei Hiraizumi

Mr. Omi

Keiko Niitaka

Midori

Akihiro Miwa

Maya at the Hell

J.A. Seazer

Longhaired Poet

Izumi Suzuki

Female Doctor

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Maki Asakawa

Prostitute on Stairway

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