Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

Terayama: *puts a green or purple color filter on every single shot* / Me: This man is a master of cinematography

Wildly inconsistent in its tiring acts of rebellion to the normal structure of film/narrative. I'd like to see Terayama succeed with a feature length, but it doesn't seem likely. Great ending, though.

A few interesting shots aside, it's a chore to sit through, a random mess with a fuck-ton of grating jumpcuts and no cohesion. It alternates between making no sense and beating you over the head with simplistic ideas and the most blatant exposition ever. Filming a photo of the characters and narrating who's who? The protagonist literally running away from his house and shouting his family issues at the top of his lungs? Oh look, an American flag and a Coca Cola bottle, imperialism's bad, mm'kay?

Favorite movie EVER...

An electric gorgeous piece of punk rock cinema with a lot of really good individual scenes, but overall too scattershot for me. And that rape scene……maybe unfair to single out Terayama for something that was so common at the time but it’s just such a prime example of how most conceptual “revolutionaries” still only viewed women as bodies and objects of sexual desire.

Transgressive in all the ways.

Sho o suteyo machi e deyô estreava há 50 anos no Japão. Amo demais o Terayama, ele é o pico do avant-garde japonês, mas ainda acho que a sua obra-prima é o Pastoral, Throw Away Your Books está no melhor de sua radicalidade formal e ideológica, mas Pastoral é lindo demais. BlurayRip no MakingOff.

sinema dediğin 28 günlük bir yalandır diyor yonetmen. bir cocugun uzerinden baslayan hikaye topluma dogru uzaniyor

More fun to think about and look back on than to actually watch. The fact that it feels avant garde 52 years later is wild.

Brllliant Avant-garde Japanese Surreal Film!!! the Avant-garde even for these days , let alone for those days!!!

Misleading title, no rallying in the streets.