Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
Directed by	Shūji Terayama
Produced by	Eiko Kujō Shūji Terayama
Written by	Shūji Terayama
Music by	Ichirō Araki Kuni Kawachi J. A. Seazer Itsurō Shimoda
Cinematography	Masayoshi Sukita
Edited by	Keiichi Uraoka
Production company	Art Theatre Guild Jinriki Hikōki Sha
Distributed by	Art Theatre Guild
Release dates	April 24, 1971
Running time	137 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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. 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.^[1]

Reception

The film won the grand prize at the San Remo Film Festival,^[2] and was voted the ninth best Japanese film of 1971 in the Kinema Junpo poll of film critics.^[3]

References

1. Ridgely, Steven C. (2011). Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 111. ISBN 0816667535.
2. Fowler, Glenn (14 May 1983). "Shuji Terayama, Japanese Playwright, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
3. "Nihon eiga besuto ten". Kinema Junpo (1385). 5 February 1972.

External links

• Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets at the Internet Movie Database
• Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets at AllMovie