Osamu Dazai

医療革命後の昭和111年の東京。人間は体内の“ナノマシン”とその管理を請け負う“ネットワーク”が管理する“S.H.E.L.L.”体制に支配されていた。その結果、病気にならず、傷の治療もいらず、120歳の寿命が保障されるが、その極端な社会制度によって経済格差を含むさまざまな問題が起こっていた。

蜷川実花監督が放つゴージャスでスキャンダラスな禁断のエンタテインメント映画。天才作家の太宰治は身重の妻・美知子と二人の子供がいながら恋の噂が絶えず、自殺未遂を繰り返す。破天荒な生き方で文壇から疎まれるも、ベストセラーを連発していたが……。

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

議員の父親を持ち、津軽では有名な資産家の御曹司・葉蔵は人間関係がうまくいかず、周囲に溶け込むためにわざと失態を犯して笑いを取る日々を送っていた。高校に入った葉蔵は遊び人の堀木や詩人の中原中也と出会い、酒や女におぼれる放蕩生活を送るようになって、精神的に疲弊していく。

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.

戦後の混乱期、酒飲みで多額の借金をし浮気を繰り返す小説家。大谷の妻・佐知は、夫が踏み倒した酒代を肩代わりするため飲み屋で働くことに。生き生きと働く佐知の明るさが評判となって店は繁盛し、やがて彼女に好意を寄せる男も現れ佐知の心は揺れる。そんな中、大谷は親しくしていたバーの女と姿を消してしまい…。

太平洋戦争中、体の弱さから自分を余計な者だと思い悩んでいた少年・利助。結核を患う彼は、終戦を機に山奥の結核療養所、健康道場へ入所する。少々風変わりな健康道場での日々を過ごす中、ひばりと名付けられた利助は、新しくやって来た看護婦長・竹さんのことが気になり始めるが…。

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.

The movie tells the story of Melos, a Greek country man that gets arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king. He gets three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius (Selinae), a genius sculptor that Melos just met stays as a hostage. As opposed to Osamu Dazai's original story, Melos is here innocent of the conspiracy accusation.

Hashire Melos! is the title of two Japanese animated films. The first was directed by Tomoharu Katsumata and released on Japanese television on February 7, 1981. It was either 68 or 87 minutes long, and its official title did not include the exclamation mark on the end. The second, with the exclamation mark, was a 107-minute remake of the first and was released on July 25, 1992. It featured direction and screenplay by Masaaki Osumi, music by Kazumasa Oda, art by Hiroyuki Okiura and Satoshi Kon, and background art by Hiroshi Ohno. Both were produced by Toei Company Ltd. Visual 80, and both were based on the original short story written by Osamu Dazai in 1940.

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.

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.