Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
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{{Infobox film
|name = Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
|image = Throw_Away_Your_Books,_Rally_in_the_Streets_Poster.jpg
|caption =
|director = Shūji Terayama
|producer = Eiko Kujō
Shūji Terayama
|writer = Shūji Terayama
|starring =
|music = Ichirō Araki
Kuni Kawachi
J. A. Seazer
Itsurō Shimoda
|cinematography = Masayoshi Sukita
|editing = Keiichi Uraoka
|studio = Art Theatre Guild
Jinriki Hikōki Sha
|distributor = Art Theatre Guild
|released = {{Film date|1971|4|24}}
|runtime = 137 minutes
|country = Japan
|language = Japanese
|budget =
}}
{{nihongo|Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets|書を捨てよ町へ出よう|Sho o Suteyo Machi e Deyō}} is a 1971 Japanese feature-length experimental drama film directed by Shūji Terayama. Serving as a metaphor for Japan's descent into materialism, it follows a young man's disillusionment with the world around him and his determination to achieve something in life while his family members are content with their poor social and economic standing. It was Terayama's first feature-length film.{{cite book|last=Ridgely|first=Steven C.|title=Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji|year=2011|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|isbn=978-0816667536|page=111|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVYbbJvp4ckC&pg=PA111}}
Reception
The film won the grand prize at the San Remo Film Festival,{{cite news|last=Fowler|first=Glenn|title=Shuji Terayama, Japanese Playwright, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/14/obituaries/shuji-terayama-playwright-dies.html|access-date=3 January 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=14 May 1983}} and was voted the ninth best Japanese film of 1971 in the Kinema Junpo poll of film critics.{{cite journal|title=Nihon eiga besuto ten|journal=Kinema Junpo|issue=1385|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/book.aspx?book_id=569|date=5 February 1972}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0228853}}
Category:1970s Japanese-language films
Category:Japanese avant-garde and experimental films
Category:Films directed by Shūji Terayama
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