Osamu Dazai

Año 2036. La medicina ha sufrido una revolución gracias a la invención de las nanomáquinas el Sistema Shell, que permiten que la muerte sea cosa del pasado. Sin embargo solo los más ricos son capaces de costeársela. Yozo Oba no es rico, y está preocupado por unos extraños sueños, pero decide unirse a la pandilla de moteros de su amigo y realizar una incursión en “The Inside”, el lugar en el que viven los ricachones. Esto cambiará la vida de Yozo para siempre.

The story of Osamu Dazai, one of Japan's most celebrated novelists, absorbed in alcohol and love; married and in a relationship with two other lovers.

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

The story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society's refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide ...

A theatrical film version of Madhouse's Aoi Bungaku Series anime. The film will re-edit the four episodes based on Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) novel, which have character designs inspired by manga artist and novel illustrator Takeshi Obata. This "director's cut" will include new "navigation" footage which is being created specifically for the film with narrator Masato Sakai.

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival

After Japan's defeat in WWII, "Pandora no hako" follows a young man named Risuke (Shota Sometani) who has contracted tuberculosis. He travels to the countryside to a unique nursing facility to receive treatment for his disease. At the sanatorium all the patients and nurses go by nicknames and Risuke decides to reinvent himself as Hibari. During his stay, Hibari develops realationships with other patients and nurses. After Hibari's friend Tsuikushi (Yosuke Kubozuka) gets discharged from the nursing facility, Hibari writes to him about his relationships with Dakesang (Mieko Kawakami) the chief nurse and Mabo (Riisa Naka) another nurse that is bright and seems to like him.

After World War II, a small aristocratic family in Japan has lost all of their money.

A sunny summer's day, the trembling insides of a girl are painted by Dazai Osamu's hidden masterpiece, "School Girl," a "Kaku Nime" production.

Una historia de amistad entre dos hombres, durante el reinado de Dionisio II, en Siracusa, Sicilia. Selinteo cree firmemente que Melos (un extraño amigo) mantendrá su promesa. Pero muchas fuerzas jugarán en su contra.

Grecia sirve de escenario a este espectacular drama que fira en torno del Rey Dionys, el cual ha perdido su fe en la humanidad. Un hombre joven llamado Meros hace votos de fidelidad a su rey. Esta película presenta un panorama atractivo y sensible acerca del valor intrínseco de la verdad y la amistad entre hombres.

Based on the novel by Osamu Dazai and distributed by ATG. The story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title) and goes down the stairs to self-destruction step by step.

Un soldado de fortuna viaja a lugares exóticos donde encuentra encanto y romance en la corte de un rey malvado.