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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
JAPAN · 1971

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Shuji Terayama
familial dysfunction existential alienation Japanese counterculture psychosexual rebellion generational conflict
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Synopsis

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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