Movies like Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   Pastoral: To Die in the Country

   Same director

   1974 · 101 min · Drama · Fantasy

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   A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • several principal cast members

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   Typhoon Club

   Strong story similarity

   1985 · 115 min · Drama

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   Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared production studio: Art Theatre Guild

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   Mitsugetsu

   Strong story similarity

   1984 · 113 min · Drama

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   Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared production studio: Art Theatre Guild

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   04

   A Story Written with Water

   Strong story similarity

   1965 · 120 min · Drama

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   Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: japanese new wave

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   05

   She and He

   Strong story similarity

   1963 · 109 min · Drama

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   As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: japanese new wave

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   Intentions of Murder

   Strong story similarity

   1964 · 150 min · Drama

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   The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: japanese new wave

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   The Face of Another

   Strong story similarity

   1966 · 122 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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   A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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   A Public Benefactor

   Strong story similarity

   1964 · 152 min · Drama

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   The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

   Strong story similarity

   1965 · 143 min · Drama

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   In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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    Violence at Noon

    Strong story similarity

    1966 · 99 min · Drama

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    Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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