Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 1971
Directed by Shūji Terayama · 137 mins · 2,105 views
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C/W: Mentions of rape in the second and third paragraphs. I used to be so angry. I loathed with gnashed teeth the many pesky nuisances of the world; the materialism and the culture it spawned predicated on image and envy that came to fruition during the years I came of age; the rampant, unfettered greed that surrounded me in the form of crony capitalism, consumerist bodies and commodified existences; the false pretenses of pseudo-intellectuals, neo-liberals and hypocritical authoritative figures… the list goes on and on. I spent so much of my time and energy thinking about (and occasionally drumming up the courage to furiously speak or even act out against) these things that I saw as cancers to humanity. I…
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Cinema in stutter. Bent. Folded. Kicked to the sea. A fuck you to some patterns. To your beloved three acts story, or the separating thick three walls. One of the character said he could chew words properly by talking in stutter. So does this film. Scattered and stuttered. Play it out loud. Chew every scene. And the next scene. The next lie. Lie of lies. The surrealism of time that flies too fast, too evil and with no mercy. Chew them all properly, by feeling the mystical feelings from ethereal sounds of screams and moans. The rebel yells, punk rock music and oriental touches. Watch the angst and the scare and the vulgar acts of movements. The breaking downs and…
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***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** “These youngsters are my age”, is the first thing that came to my mind. As the opening sequence has the protagonist speaking directly to us, embodying an eager sense of freedom devoid of impositions so long set by society and looking for a release after so much time, I identified. Three scenes later after the furious opening credits, this same young man is seen running over a railway in an endless reverse-moving tracking shot constantly shifting from left to right with the soundtrack playing loud. The film ends similarly, but with him screaming, also over a railroad, but this final shot is more self-controlled, as his strength gradually weakens. My…
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I love this film with all my heart, so here is an embarrassing story related to a screening of Throw Away Your Books Rally In The Streets that I had a few years back. So it was spring break at my university but the campus was still open for students but it was mostly dead quiet. Me and my friend were film students so we took advantage of the emptiness and decided to screen a selection of films in a huge lecture theatre perfect for watching films in. One day, two of us decided to screen Throw Away Your Books. We turned up the volume to max and switched off the lights, and lied down on the seats (because they are…
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Trying to imagine freedom when there’s so little around you. An impressive achievement in how it constant moves around opposite feelings/ideas/strategies in a manner that doesn’t cancel them out, but make them inform and enrich each other. An affirmative movie in the middle of pure bleakness.
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SSally Jane Black 8 月 24, 2026
The soundtrack to this alone is worth the time and trouble to find it, but holy hell, what a wild film. Brutal, bizarre, and scathing. edited 11/13/16
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This was pretentious as fuck. The type of film that jerks itself off for 3hrs to convey a message that could be easily illustrated in a much better film. Honestly reading the top reviews for this gives me hay fever. Jesus. I love Japanese New Wave, I loved Funeral Parade of Roses (which one could argue is a similar film), but this was just a ball of nonsense that masquerades as intellectual gold. Better films have been made that illustrate a lost, angry generation. Ones that don’t meander around the runtime, distracted from revealing anything sort of a cohesive social ideology beyond “west sucks”. Yeah we know America sucks, can you atleast show us why, and how your characters come…
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tw: rape i’m so fucking tired of political/experimental/art films exploiting the sexual trauma of women. there is a harrowing gang rape scene in this film that goes on for SO long and it made me feel physically ill to the point that i could barely stomach the rest of the film. wonder what it must be like for people who can watch this and come away from it praising the power of cinema as though they watched the ending 10 minutes in some kind of vacuum and the rest of the film with a numbness for the way terayama uses rape as a way to make a political statement that has no interest in the effects of trauma or really any concern for the female experience. but uhhh cool soundtrack and mid-shot aperture changes!
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I’m not going to lie, I watched this because the title seemed cool. In hindsight I wish I had read up on some context first… Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets is the ultimate rebellious film. Any and every convention (political, social, cinematic) is not only ignored, but purposefully and gloriously ripped to shreds. The narrative itself is hard to explain seeing as though it jumps from being an anti-capitalistic adrenaline rush to a Freudian fever dream, but a few things remain constant. The music is sensational and constantly fills each scene with momentous energy, additionally the film is constantly and creatively breaking the fourth wall, whether that means the characters speak directly to the camera about the…
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Extremely loud, wild, carefree, emotional and provocative, idealizing vulgarity and angst in the most avant-garde way possible, the fourth wall is completely demolished right from the start, and the film crew literally stands together in one picture to announce the end of the film ; Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets is the record of a boy’s life as he hit rock bottom, filmed with a mixture of styles extracted from music videos and documentaries, it is a film you run and scream with while channeling the rebellious side you never knew you had, the music shouts at your face and encourages you to shout back. Feels like the epitome of Japanese New Wave cinema despite being unlike anything I’ve seen before, a punk’s acid trip, sex and riot and rock and roll all under a psychedelic filter, open book of infinite margins —– I can watch this again and again.
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The film will be over soon, and no one will remember me. When it ends only the white screen remains. indescribable feeling that can only come from watching something this good
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A film concerned with ending film itself by breaking all conventions of film. Why? It already tells you in the title, to throw away your books and rally in the streets. Books (and film, and games, and media in general) are important to be clear, but what is the reason one reads, watches, plays? Primarily it should be to educate, to help inform the recipient and improve their life, but often it ends up as a way of passing time. There is nothing wrong with entertainment but over-indulgence leads us to forget why we do it in the first place, as shown regularly in the film where intellectuals who spend all their time reading are the most disconnected from society.…
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I ♥ weird asian films Me impresionó lo actual que parece, podría ser tranquilamente una peli indie de los 2010. Los planos, los colores y la escenografía un 10 TODO. Como siempre, male directors be like: Voy a poner una escena de violación que dure 10 minutos. Pero bueno quitando eso un peliculón.
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a friend recommended this film to me, and honestly idk what take i should give after watching it. but what i got from it is that you should throw away the things that tell you how you’re supposed to think and actually go experience life for yourself, and i think thats all thank you
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Aaaadipace 8 月 21, 2026
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Ql scene de fin pour finir un chef doeuvre wsh Terayama c un gueudin jm bcp comment il casse le 4eme mur pour te foutre directement dans la société qu il critique e javais même plus l’impression de guetter un film mais d etre au milieu des gens completement matrixer par leur quotidien qui deviennent ouf: la misere sociale la miff la khedma, lavenir, langoisse existentielle e jen passe yen a enormement que j’ai pas citer Le pire v2v c’est…
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اعظم ماانتجته اليابان التوجه الفني والموسيقي خارق للطبيعة شوجي اتقن فن الاخراج، التنقل بين اللون الاخضر والبنفسجي لمسة كانت مثالية فعلا
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una lucertola in una lattina di coca cola
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SSean 8 月 19, 2026
don’t really know what I’d rate this yet but I liked it a lot. Much to think about… Very angry and overwhelming and horrific and beautiful
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抒情的太抒情的……证明张狂的视听非常难运用，视觉有冲击力不代表更有感染力（除非你是费里尼），过度使用符号很可能滑入自恋的宣泄，没有创造足够有效的视听，最终电影会和迷幻摇滚一样成为一时之选…
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“I’ve got no home. I’ve got no country. There’s no world for me. None of that existed right from the start…” One of the boldest feature debuts in the history of (Japanese) cinema, Terayama’s cheeky, anarcho-poetic experiment is directed with a no-fucks-given attitude, rebelling against authority, tradition, conformism, the world and even self, with the fourth wall-breaking monologues, documentary-style interviews, music video-like interludes and whatnots breaking a deliberately non-linear narrative. At its angst-driven heart longing for freedom, it is a…
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Kkristinayakuza 8 月 19, 2026
✮⋆˙Summer Fest 2026 – 10. comfort pills 🩹💊 ахуенейши визуал и саунд, оператору руки поцеловали надеюсь. но я себя ощутила немного глупцом, потому что мало что поняла. это сто проц надо пересмотреть… пока что #безоценки
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Wtf Une révolution psychédélique vibrante vu à travers les yeux d’un jeune homme troublé par sa sexualité ambiguë, une situation familiale désastreuse, un environnement nocif, des traumatismes psychosexuel, l’aliénation et son inadéquation avec les conventions de genre et de ce qu’« être un homme » signifie. Niveau cinématographique, tout est dans le titre : « Throw away your books, rally in the streets » nous invite à oublier tout ce que l’on sait déjà, vivre cette expérience et a nous…
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Bizarre filters, a fragmented and chaotic narrative, frenzied rock music, nihilistic poetry—inner visions and the intractability of reality coalesce into one. In Anpo Protests， as the country shifted from radical political movements to a more stable social climate and the international red movement began to wane, the younger generation found itself increasingly adrift in the society it inhabited. After the revolution’s failure, the real challenge was no longer “how to overthrow the old world,” but rather, “once the old world…
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Woah. This film is so reckless and beautiful. It makes me want to rally. About what? Idk
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As an audiovisual experiment, this is incredible. Every single frame is meticulously composed and lit, every song is transcendent, and yet, I felt nothing. I get it, the film is focused far more on being intellectually stimulating and making a statement than being ‘enjoyable’, in fact it aims to make its statement by being the opposite of a consumable, easy-to-watch piece of entertainment. Despite this intention though, I simply cannot coerce myself into liking the film just because the dullness…
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Yoko ono would fuck with this so hard
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How it felt like reading Osamu Dazai. There is too much to speak of this film, it was something that remind us how free cinema should be and is. Crowded with symbolism that could means the world and nothing, taping on a depressing yet not even real story line, obscure colour and cinematography throughout that is both inviting and repellent. Everytime it breaks the fourth wall was something special, for it was the core of its rebellious nature, we are…
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MMilena 8 月 16, 2026
The direction is free-flowing, sometimes reminiscent of theater, dreams, or nightmares, with powerful images and a particularly sinister atmosphere. Some scenes are provocative but also allow us to reflect on freedom, identity and the place of the individual in society. However, this highly experimental approach can also be a drawback. The film deliberately lacks structure and classic storytelling, which can make some scenes difficult to understand or give the impression that they are gratuitous. Some passages, particularly those dealing with…
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“What are you doing here, sitting in a dark room waiting for something to happen when the real action is, and always has been, out in the streets?” Terayama is so unfathomably brilliant. I will say, I enjoyed Pastoral: To Die in the Country slightly more than this, but that’s just nitpicking. To call this a genius, eye opening, all time great piece of media would be nothing short of a gross understatement. Absolutely incredible.
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películaaaaaa número 500, y que buena me cago en la puta
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very unique, shots were all amazing, lots of political and existential symbolism i didn’t understand.
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absolutely magnificent in editing and whatnot. every performance feels so real and grounded, the philosophy of this film is unmatched in every way. you can really tell shuji terayama put all his heart into this. definetly a t4
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Couldn’t finish the movie, actually infuriating to watch a rape scene go on for that long. This shit is so weird I’m tired of watching movies with random sexual assault to “convey a message.” Stop exploiting women’s trauma for a film.
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Keroauc, Iggy Pop, Situationist International, street theatre, disorder, chaos, noise. All that good shit, A+
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The whole movie was nothing like I had seen before. Fourth wall wasn’t even a thing in this movie that itself made it so real to watch. So many messages were getting conveyed, the soundtrack is just the cherry on top, the movie felt like a rebel to everything like peace, freedom, hardships, fear etc.
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“A cidade é um livro aberto, escreva em suas margens infinitas” Fotografia, trilha e atuação impecáveis, conseguindo deixar todo o contraste do filme abstrato e criativo! Achei interessante o formato meio documentário e depois filme e depois teatro Dito isso, não entendi foi nada!! mto bom
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mi ha ricordato qualche opera di dazai osamu emoziona
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Film di formazione del sentimento rivoluzionario. Butta via i libri, butta via le imposizioni ideologiche, i confini mentali, l’attrezzatura che ti impedisce di andare oltre ogni barriera. Elimina l’autorità del pensiero per liberarti dall’asfissia del consumo, del capitalismo targato USA (di cui questo film fa una denuncia anche nei riguardi dell’influenza culturale che ha avuto sul Giappone, in un senso anti-imperialista). La meraviglia di scegliere coscientemente l’azione, contro alla mansuetudine imposta dello “stare con le mani in mano”. Rompere la…
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We outside
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m’attendez à mieux
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supr pretty movie, beyond incredible uses of color. and pretty original camerawork. definitely Very ahead of it’s time, almost everything about this is transgressive. the performances were pretty good, sometimes having 1 or 2 standout moments (Yukiko Kobayashi, Hideaki Sasaki, Fudeko Tanaka), but no one stole the show. yah i really enjoyed this and it definitely made it’s points, enjoyed the ending and the fourth wall breakz throughout, but i do think it was repetitive, occasionally it seems they don’t…
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STUPID talentless CHUD films half an HOUR b-roll footage, RANDOM imagery, NONSENSE plot, USELESS scenes, and GRAPHIC content, to prove they TOO can make funeral parade of roses CONCLUSION: HE CANT Straight up harmful to pretentious people actually talented enough to back it up
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velice tezce hodnotitelny film v tom ze se mi zda ze strasne draguje porad ty 2 hodiny jsou pocitove 4 ale jako taky co je vevnitr je vsechno zajimave ma to co rict a je to objektivne nadherny film ale doopravdy nedokazu odpustit ze mi to trvalo postupne sledovani pres 2 tydny se tim dostat film je strukturalne podobny gummo tim ze to ma jakoby ABCABC format filmu kde A je pribehova linka hlavnich postav B je hudebni cislo a…
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Nobody will remember me
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Soundtrack goes hard, aesthetics go hard, quotes all go hard. It takes “show, don’t tell” to another level whereby it is the form itself, the structure of the film or lack thereof, by which it attempts to shake/challenge bourgeois ideology. While it might stumble here and there, it does well to channel this punk and activist spirit of the youth movement of its time and asks us to smash the structures of power at be, both out in the world and in our minds.
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Absolutely crazy movie. The most wacko experimental nuberu bagu film I’ve seen yet. A lot of the time it’s straight sensory overload, and at other times I’m left scratching my head, but when I consider the time this film came out in it feels like a blunt statement on current conflicts. The film makes a critique of sexual violence, and the absurdity of everything going on makes it hard to fully take its critiques seriously, but the point is still…
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I cannot tell you why. This movie has so deeply emotionally affected me, I physically feel different after watching this film, its made me feel disassociated fully from reality for like an hour. I think my review may be interpreted as superficial in a way, because I’m fully basing how I view the greatness of this film purely on my emotional reaction to it but I don’t care because I have seriously never been affected by a movie in this…
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets is unlike any movie I had seen before, and I doubt I will ever watch anything remotely similar in the future. The overarching plot was very entertaining and I liked most of the experimental “interludes” even though some of them didn’t make a lot of sense. My favorite part was the awesome J-rock soundtrack. Someone on the set has amazing taste in music.
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Sì fra anche io volevo fare il pugile
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IT’S A TRULY CRAZY MOVIE WTF 😭😭😭 So far, this is the craziest experimental film I’ve ever watched. I actually like how the director uses metaphors to illustrate Me’s situation with a fragile, hand-built airplane, and how he depicts the human condition through people’s flaws. It’s chaotic, but I love the meaning behind this film and the message the director is trying to deliver.
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Throw away your books, go on a raping spree I guess. Fuck you. Pretentious drek. *impotently running my bike tire into a clearly open door to show how much I hate insanely graphic sexual assault*
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caraca, eu não sei o que dizer desse daqui nãokkkkkkkkk em partes, sinto vontade de pouco ou nada me associar com esse filme (yikessss) porém, ao mesmo tempo, é uma perspectiva superficial sobre a narrativa e sobre o que eu penso do todo. eu concordo que, certos tipos de filmes precisam ser desconfortáveis, tipo, me senti mal assistindo porque é pra se sentir mal mesmo. PORÉM, ao mesmo tempo, eu me questionou quais seriam os limites do desconforto? até onde…
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Um avião-humano.
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Man that deranking from a 4.2 to a 4.1 is some bullshit, We really allowing “Pro Jet Heil Marie” & “Ze Oooh De Sea” be higher than this?
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For those of you that don’t know me in person, I’ve had a pretty major stutter all my life that in adulthood waxes and wanes between annoyance and pretty debilitating communication failure. It’s endlessly frustrating (and the older I get, the more fed up) how impatient interactions become, how mischaracterized or ill-meant dialogues turn. The “Stuttering Is An Ideology” monologue is really beautiful and touching for me then, rainbow smudge and swelling music and all, and is exactly as serious…
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No le des libertad a los enemigos de la libertad Ok, no entendí. Está claro que el director juega con la cámara y los colores ( especialmente verde rosado) no sigue un guión lineal, lo que puede llegar a ser confuso. La mayoría de las cosas aquí no me las esperaba, lo del conejo fue una de esas e incluso lo veo innecesario. Es sin dudas, salvaje y experimental en todo sentido. La ciudad es un libro abierto. Escribe sobre sus infinitos marges. favs 🫶
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(CW, this film is about comfort women, Korean genocide, and Japanese guilt over war crimes.) How lucky we are to live in a time where works of art like this are accessible any where on the planet. I am reading Lee Jae-eui, Hwang Sok-yong, and Jeon Yong-ho’s experience of the Gwangju Uprising right now, and this film was a potent reminder of what the student movements did for peace and progress in the most dystopian circumstances.
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Excesivamente dura, sin compasión. Tan cruda que por momentos cuesta permanecer inerte. No te ofrece nada a lo que agarrarte. Tanto que la sorprendente narrativa, con injerencias teóricas que me recordaron a la experimentación de La chinoise y efectos visuales, saltando del color a tonalidades verdes o rojas y negras, parece que te ayudan a salir por momentos del discurso catastrofista de Terayama, que tiene poca piedad con sus personajes. Y, para regalo, los últimos minutos, cuando la historia parece haber llegado a su fin, que me la guardo como uno de esas anomalías que consiguen que el cine me siga sorprendiendo absolutamente.
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Film da fare vedere nelle scuole per iniziare il processo di autodistruzione che prima o poi avverrà.
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« Goodbye Cinema. »
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shuji terayama got to be one of the greatest film makers of the 1970s i love his brand of surrealism
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets is a visually striking and experimental film that captures youth rebellion and alienation with bold, surreal imagery. Its unconventional style isn’t for everyone, but it’s a unique and amazing experience
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Me gustó mucho y cada que pienso en ella siento que me faltaron cosas por ver por estar weando con el Ulloa. Me rehúso a decir mucho hasta que no la vea de nuevo.
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Şehir açık bir kitaptır onun sonsuza uzanan kenarlarına yazın. Sinemanın sınırlarını genişletmek, yaratıcılığı artırmak, deneysel çalışmalar yapmak ancak rüyaları kullanmakla oluyor.
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A loud, psychedelic, colourful world of youth and rebellion to get lost in. Parts of it dragged but the atmosphere is awesome. Loved the soundtrack and the “credits”. I’m due for a rewatch of Pastoral. I watched it during university but it definitely wasn’t HD.
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shuji terayama karyalu bagus banget sumpah, film yang nge eksplor sisi gelap jepang pasca perang, dan juga keluarga mc yang di sini perannya bisa di sebut kurang gitu, atau bahkan bisa disebut disfungsional malah,mc yang punya mimpi buat keluar dari zona kemiskinan dan menjadi bebas, soundtrack, cinematography nya peak banget tbh,banyak juga pesan pesan yang di selipkan author di film filmnya, not recommended tapi kalo lu suka flm yang bergaya kritik,absurdism,dan surealism boleh ditonton
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Gostei, mas filme não linear não me pega
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RRyan 8 月 3, 2026
Really struggling with some of these japanese new wave films. I think it was deconstructing society and the family unit during the new left etc etc but like lowkey it was also really boring. Some parts were kinda cool. Maybe these just arent for me. Also japanese art/indie movie try not to depict the rape as women as character development for the male characters challenge difficulty level impossible On the bright side this was probably the greenest movie i’ve ever seen
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I really wanted to love this but it just didnt resonate with me much. I get some of the themes, honestly some of it was just too surrealistic and i bet theres stuff that i just didnt catch or understand. But while it looked great and had scenes that i absolutely loved the story itself didnt make me feel anything. It also had so much edgy shit just for shock value and to offend – maybe that worked in the…
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humanamente impossível captar todas as mensagens do filme sem um caderninho de anotações. Um entendimento básico é, todos os personagens tem seu modo de vida questionados, o que os força a amadurecer. Seja por escolha ou à força. Todos precisam de um rito de passagem
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“Do not give freedom to the enemy of freedom” maybe its a punk movie idk for me it was a sad movie i was like it would be ridiculous if i cry to a terayama film. pastoral and this together; you can write a new totem and taboo
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Breaks all the conventions every movie I’ve seen follows, but doesn’t do it for simply no reason or out of pretentiousness. The world around this movie is collapsing, so the structure should too. So many awful things happen here, but it makes for one of the greatest movies I’ve seen! It’s one of those movies that I can’t fathom someone ever making again. The ending is especially unreal! What an experience.
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“The film will be over soon, and no one will remember me. When it ends only the white screen remains.” é um dos filmes mais disruptivos que já vi. não existe UMM único momento em que ele escolha o conforto em vez do risco. tudo está em movimento e tudo se contradiz. a liberdade é própria forma do filme. demorei 3 hrs dps que vi pra digerir algumas cenas kkkkkkk
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I might’ve found what I rlly like
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‘Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets’, 1971, uno dei più importanti film sperimentali d’avanguardia del mondo. Il tema centrale è una critica alla realtà dei media in generale (cinema, letteratura, musica ecc…) nel momento in cui crea individui alienati dalla loro realtà. Guerra, violenza e disperazione esistono fuori e voi vi rintanate nel mondo falso dei sogni? E’ la domanda che il protagonista di questo capolavoro si pone. E la risposta è… si. Per quanto si possa amare…
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AAndrea Panarello 7 月 30, 2026
Sayonara, Cinema.
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Depois de ver o filme, deu vontade de jogar os meus livros fora, e ir nas ruas, adeus cinema!
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a let down. Someone should have told all those kids in the 70’s that taking psychedelic doesn’t automatically make you a philosopher and your art won’t necessarily be subversive. Or maybe for it’s time this film was both philosophical and subversive idk. I was bored. Some nice visuals though.
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“No hay nada a lo que aferrarse” Una de las películas más fascinantes, raras y originales que he visto.
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يمكن ضليت ربع ساعه صافن وره ما انتهى الفلم .. هذا المخرج شلون ضل عايش بعد هالثوره هاي
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“When you think about it, a film can only live in darkness. When you turn on the lights, the world is blotted out.”
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Ver esta película me recuerda a no pertencer, a desencajar, ¿porqué cómo podría atreverme a categorizar esta peli?, esta sensación nueva e innombrable es por lo que me gusta ver películas, siempre puedo sentir algo, y en ocasiones muy especiales sentir algo excepcional como con Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets. Sí, esta peli tartamudea, de aforismo en aforismo, como el corazón, incluso yo podría tartamudear ahora mismo si la escritura me lo concediera. Imagina editar la peli…
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Fue una experencia…particular… Creo que no es mi tipo de pelicula..y no me termino de gustar del todo, pero aprecio el trabajo artistico que tiene esta peli apesar de que tiene escenas que bastante chocantes. El final termina de carrea la peli y ganarse mis respetos.
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surrealismo psicodelicopunk japonés traumante entiendo que habla sobre la perdida de la inocencia, también en diálogo con el Japón de la posguerra y toda la picha de ese hipercapitalismo decadente raro japonés y que ahora también habita todo el mundo. viva ser colonia estadounidense, yei! densa como ella sola, eso sí
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An human aeroplane for 28 days. Aesthetically revolutionary, but in therms of context it just felt disappointing. That’s how I felt about it. Well, it was one of the films I most wanted to see in the last months, with this interesting title and descriptions, and also was the first movie I had to see in the internet archives since I couldn’t find it anywhere else, so it had everything to bring me to one of the most marvellous movies…
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No le deís libertad a los enemigos de la libertad
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I don’t even know where to start. Without a doubt one of the most meaningful, unconventional and simply one of the best films I’ve ever seen. Right from the beginning, the film breaks the fourth wall with a monologue from the unnamed protagonist speaking directly to us. Honestly, one of the strongest openings ever. It immediately tells you what kind of experience this is going to be. But the film keeps playing with the audience throughout its entire runtime. It…
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Again very good
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It is quite possible that this film will appeal to me even more upon a rewatch, but I have to admit that I liked Pastoral way more. I don’t always want to compare films, but in this case, it’s an obvious thing to do. Shūji Terayama made a huge step in terms of the quality and complexity of his films. Although he released Emperor Tomato Ketchup in the same year, that film simply doesn’t compare to this one and I…
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incredibly pretentious
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C
Nambre que peliculón, shout out a mi compa el Inceluis que sin el no me hubiera enterado de casi nada
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Vivid cinematography that overwhelmingly POPS. A disorganized tribute to intellectual and pop culture, advancing progressive ethos championed by a band of the disillusioned, disabled youth celebrating acting, poetry, anti-nationalism, Marxism, and erotica. TWYBRITS has defiance in every breath that it even betrays the cinema in the end, knowing it’s powerful but insufficient. Cinema solely belongs in the dark. He was a human airplane for 28 days; not for life, and not in life. Best ending credits ever. Subversion in every muddied step.
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All that is a world that disappears when the lights go up. Goodbye, cinema.
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God I love mid century leftist cinema. Shūnji Terayama | Japanese | 1 9 7 1
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insanely great masterpiece, i am speechless after watching it. sobrang ganda putangina.
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Il y a une liberté absolument jouissive dans la mise en scène de ce film entre filtres de couleurs et mouvements de caméras fous, Terayama pond une œuvre unique
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C
don’t know how to talk about this. don’t know where to begin. perhaps at the beginning? which was such an enticing monologue to open a film with or perhaps the monologue at the end? which is what pushed this up to a 4.5 “what about the middle?” you ask. i’m at a loss for words. and i can’t tell if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but this perhaps isn’t for everyone, even if the experimentation is incredibly rewarding.
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great
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Hopelessness is an immortal. Good movie.
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almost every identity is borrowed.
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urghhhhhhh
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LLeoUchihaColo14 7 月 17, 2026
No tenía idea de qué iba antes de verla, solo que me esperaba algo experimental y punk y joder, sí lo es. Siento que en algunos de sus aspectos es una de esas películas adelantadas a su tiempo, el inicio y el final son prueba de ello; creo que nunca había visto un uso tan bueno de las pantallas en blanco y en negro en el cine. Si embargo, pese a que entiendo la crítica que enuncia, siento que a…
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poser. yeah, yeah, deconstruct cinema. What about deconstructing internalized misogyny? that’d be 100% more punk. this isn’t even anarchy, it’s more of a façade.
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Ccatalina rossel 7 月 16, 2026
ensalada de esquizofrenia con un soundtrack demasiado bueno Los japoneses son tan raros aveces
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Controcultura giapponese La cittá é un libro aperto, scrivi sui suoi bordi infiniti sulla carta non ha nulla che non vada. Si nota tantissima sperimentazione: la fotografia rasenta la perfezione e l’uso dei filtri diversi (verde il mio preferito, ma anche il magenta che bello) che dividono il reale dall’immaginazione, rendono il tutto ancor più magnifico. L’alternarsi di scene in stile documentaristico, scene dal vivo, in mezzo alla società di quel tempo, la rottura della quarta parete, il montaggio frenetico,…
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Mother my eyes have tears, smoking a peace cigarette
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em “terra em transe”, magnum opus do glauber rocha, a personagem interpretada por glauce rocha diz: “a poesia e a política são demais para um só homem”. acho simbólico, portanto, que os filmes políticos mais belos sejam os mais poéticos, incluindo o do glauber, e esta grande obra prima subversiva do terayama. rosa, verde, fogo, revolta, juventude, bandeiras queimando, foda-se o sistema, juventude, o sol gagueja, violência, niilismo, surrealismo, foda-se a quarta parede, punk rock pra caralho, e joguem seus livros no lixo e tomem as ruas! pelo menos duas lágrimas caíram. um dos filmes mais belos que já vi na minha vida.
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“as long as there is a body, it will be like this”. seems to put it to me that being an organism is all rape. everything’s just degrees of acceptability in how you have your way with things. we want very understandably some tenderness. in seeking it out, we force ourselves on our object and suck all we can out of it, as legally or illegally as we can square with ourselves, and thank God we have parsimonious contracts to…
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LL Ʌ S 7 月 15, 2026
Once again mindblowing 10/10 movie if not for the one, unnecessary, overly long, out of place 🍇 scene.
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Impressively pretentious and self-indulgent. Essentially a disjointed mashup of themes and ideas that intend to be subversive and may be individually interesting, but in execution, quickly becomes extremely unenjoyable and tedious. The intentionally abstract and abrasive style is annoying and ineffective. There’s next to nothing on a character level, and the plot is a mess. There are occasionally interesting visuals and a unique soundtrack, but even that is underwhelming. The 2-hour-plus runtime is terribly paced and drags severely. It’s clearly low-budget and not very well-made, but for its time, it’s understandable. I quickly lost any interest. Painfully dull and severely overrated.
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“Nobody knows who I am”
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Aanotherwaste 7 月 14, 2026
‘ knowledge of all the means rejected up until now by the shamefaced sex of comfortable compromise and good manners: DADA; abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: DADA ‘ awesome
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太沉重。不喜欢。
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So who am I in the eyes of most people
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Quando o homem passou com o pedaço de carne na frente deles eu tive que pausar. Concerteza o filme que me mudou. Eu realmente reconsiderei em colocá-lo no meu top filmes por conta das cenas pesadas, porém ele reproduz e transmite muita coisa. É necessário.
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C
Man this movie was just a ball of nothingness and just didn’t do it for me. Look, I get it, post war Japan, the perfect era for a perfect revolution, and that’s what I was expecting. Instead I got a movie about characters I barely cared about wondering without meaning throughout almost half of the movie. It was just a waste of time at that point. I wanted to feel this movie but it just fell flat for me. The…
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Filmes são como vidas que não vivemos, histórias fictícias que por pelo menos 2 horas podemos fazer parte. A arte é uma mentira! Filmes são mentiras!! Joguem fora seus livros e saiam as ruas!!!!!!! Esse filme mostra a importância da arte através do vazio, cenas desnecessárias e desconfortáveis que nos fazem pensar, por que eu estou vendo um filme assim? Essa é a vida real, essa é a realidade, é necessário. Incrível, adeus cinema.
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السينما اليابانية قبل هذا الفيلم جانت سينما يمينية مُحافظة تحاول تطرح مواضيع اجتماعية وتحاول تنمي القيم اليابانية القديمة قبل فترة اليابان الدكتاتورية وقبل دخولها بالحروب، اما هذا الفيلم اجه وضرب كل ذني المواضيع عرض الحايط لان ذنيج الافلام ماجانن يعالجن الواقع الاجتماعي ولا يصورن الواقع الاقتصادي لليابان بتلك الفترة ، الفيلم صور تمرد الجيل الجديد على الاعراف القديمة وهلشي ذكرني بالفيلم التايواني a brighter summer day طبعا هذا الفيلم جان حيل منحط ومتطرف وباوقات مقرف بطرح هذا الجانب على عكس…
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فيلم ما يتكلم عن التمرد بقدر ما يتكلم عن شعور الانسان وهو يحاول يلقى مكانه في عالم ما يشبهه
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i don’t know why people hype this film up when the message is delivered in such an uninspiring way, using rape for shock value but i guess the cinematography is stunning.
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Premier film réalisé par shūji Tereyama (1er long métrage hein) et c’est tout simplement exceptionnel. Je n’ai pas beaucoup de mots a placer pour donner mon ressenti sur cette oeuvre, mais j’ai été sur le cul complet. Énorme satire sociale, vient bousculer tout le monde pour une question qui revient, quand est ce qu’on va arrêter d’analyser et se renfermer sur des livres, quand est ce qu’on va agir ? Esthétique c’est du jamais vu, plus brut que pastoral ou…
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Terserah orang²bilang apa, tapi iki bullshit woi
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J’me permets d’edit la note vu comment le film il psgrm la pute merci de ne plus jamais me recommander de films jenna
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Excellent. Loud. Phenomenal soundtrack. The definition of impotent adolescent rage. Punk as fuck. The opening and closing are so incredibly strong that the third act drag feels especially rough. Some of the vignettes were a touch long in my opinion but at the end of the day it’s New Wave… we’re supposed to break rules.
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It’s loud, electrifying, messy and alive. Half political manifesto, half psychedelic concert. Youthful rage has rarely been this colorful. One of those movies you could enjoy with the sound turned up and the subtitles off.
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Little rambling review The biggest praise I can give this movie was that the way the soundtrack worked into the story was actually quite cool. The use of the plane as a narrative piece representing his aspirations and lofty dreams despite his circumstances, to never rise above the ground and eventually burn was strong. Also, the movie’s color palette changing at intervals was visually interesting. The gang r@pe scene is the most glaring issue for me. A multi-minute scene dedicated…
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Name 10 books thrown away
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La musique est bien mais je pense que ce n’est vraiment pas un film à voir en tout cas je n’ai pas envie de le revoir.
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I wanted to like this film, I did. The Japanese film industry has produced more than its fair share of classics so I was curious what the indie film scene had to offer, especially coming from a director associated with the left-wing underground. Suffice to say, I was sorely dissappointed. Shuji Terayama’s Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Sho o sute yo machi e deyô in its original Japanese) is an experimental film that paints the life of…
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Kkuragesukina 2 月 7, 2026
I get the point that’s trying to be made but that doesn’t mean I have to like it how they did it. Admittedly maybe It’s partially on me for not looking up content warnings for a 1970s avant-garde counterculture movie. Fork in kitchen I guess. I agree with the messages of the movie, and I thought it was interesting how it’s shot to make the viewer feel like we’re intruding on every scene. I really did find the movie interesting…
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Fury and agony to be easily privatized
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A vibrant and completely wild journey through the frustrations and the social shifts of the youth culture during a very specific historical moment. I loved the energy and how the individual episodes kept shifting in such a playful and unexpected way in the city. It prioritizes mood and style and it captures the specific intensity of a generation trying to find its own voice. The visual experimentation was absolutely mind-blowing and immediate.
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Hell
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还是认为日本70-80年代的一批电影吹过了，电影还是要掌握基本的技术，虽然没有也没关系毕竟是作者电影，但至少得会。该片很粗糙，混乱，但这就是学生占领街头的冲击波！就是要这样大笑下去，任凭发生什么恶心的烂事，天塌不下来，这样他们就不能胜利。
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Um dos raríssimos filmes que realmente são absolutamente transformadores
- 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.
- Director
- Shūji Terayama
- Writer
- Shūji Terayama
- Studio
- Jinriki Hikoki Sha, Art Theatre Guild
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Year
- 1971
- Runtime
- 137 mins
- Hong Kong04 Nov 2006
- Japan24 Apr 1971
- France22 Nov 1972
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