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青い文学シリーズ

青い文学シリーズ

2009 - 2009

No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura

10th October 2009
Episode 1
A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost

17th October 2009
Episode 2
A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society

24th October 2009
Episode 3
A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World

31st October 2009
Episode 4
A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1

7th November 2009
Episode 5
A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife, but she is more than she seems to be.

In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2

14th November 2009
Episode 6
A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife, but she is more than she seems to be.

Kokoro - Chapter 1

21st November 2009
Episode 7
A young man lives in Tokyo as a renter with a widow and her daughter. He invites his childhood friend, a monk, to come live with him, hoping to help him. When the monk falls in love with the widow's daughter, it drives a rift between them. The story is narrated from two points of view, the man's and the monk's.

Kokoro - Chapter 2

21st November 2009
Episode 8
A young man lives in Tokyo as a renter with a widow and her daughter. He invites his childhood friend, a monk, to come live with him, hoping to help him. When the monk falls in love with the widow's daughter, it drives a rift between them. The story is narrated from two points of view, the man's and the monk's.

Run, Melos! - Chapter 1

28th November 2009
Episode 9
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.

Run, Melos! - Chapter 2

5th December 2009
Episode 10
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend

The Spider's Thread

26th December 2009
Episode 11
Kandata, a cruel and evil bandit is executed and lands in hell. The one good thing he had done in his life was to not kill a spider he met in the city. The spider drops him a thread to climb up into heaven. His elation is short-lived, however, as he realizes that others have started climbing the thread behind him.

Hell Screen

26th December 2009
Episode 12
Yoshihide, the greatest painter in the country, is commissioned to draw his greatest work, an image of the king's country inside his mausoleum. In the despotic king's realm, Yoshihide can see nothing but the suffering of the commoners. He decides to make his last work a tribute to the country as it really is.
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An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.

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