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Shūji Tsushima (津島 修治, Tsushima Shūji, 19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), known by his pen name Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese novelist and author. [1] A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō ) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku ), are considered modern classics.
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.
The Beggar Student (乞食学生, Kojiki Gakusei) is a 1940 Japanese novella by Osamu Dazai.Set in Tokyo during WWII, the story stars a fictionalized version of the author who is roused from his depression by a high school dropout named Saeki and convinced to take his place as the live narrator for a silent film.
The Flowers of Buffoonery (道化の華, Dōke no Hana) is a 1935 Japanese novella by Osamu Dazai.Initially titled The Sea (海, Umi) in an early draft Dazai shared with friends, [1] the work was first published [2] in the short-lived coterie journal Nihon romanha [] and has been described as a "major contribution" to the magazine. [3]
Otogi-zōshi (お伽草紙) is a Japanese collection of short stories by Osamu Dazai.In this work, the author is giving the reader a reinterpretation of classic Japanese fairy tales such as Urashima Taro, Tanuki and the Rabbit, Tale of a man with a wen and the Tongue-cut Sparrow, and gives the characters a new dimension which go against the national spirit which the Imperial Japanese ...
Sakunosuke Oda (織田 作之助, Oda Sakunosuke, October 26, 1913 – January 10, 1947) was a Japanese writer.He is often grouped with Osamu Dazai and Ango Sakaguchi as the Buraiha.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Japanese: 戦場のメリークリスマス, Hepburn: Senjō no Merī Kurisumasu, lit. ' Battlefield's Merry Christmas '), also known as Furyo (Japanese for "prisoner of war"), [3] is a 1983 war film co-written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima, co-written by Paul Mayersberg, and produced by Jeremy Thomas.