TV series
Aoi Bungaku Series
Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2009-10-10
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 12 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Drama, Mystery
- Network
- Nippon TV
- Production
- Studio Amo, Threelight Holdings, Aoi Bungaku Series Committee, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Happinet Pictures, McRAY, movic, MTI Co., Ltd., Visionare, Nippon Animation, Madhouse
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Masato Sakai as Ōba Yōzō
- Atsuko Tanaka as Madam
- Wataru Takagi as Horiki
- Mamiko Noto as Yoshiko
- Romi Park as Tsuneko
- Miho Miyagawa as Pharmacy Owner (voice)
- Aya Hisakawa as Shizuko
- Ai Horanai as waitress
- Tomoko Kotani as Shigeko
- Yasushi Miyabayashi as radiocaster
- Nana Mizuki as Akiko
- Taeko Kawata as Chiyo
Creators and crew
- Tetsuro Araki - Director
- Issei Kume - Director
- Kojiro Tsuruoka - Director
- Miho Hirao - Director
- Ken Iizuka - Writer
- Satoshi Suzuki - Writer
Episodes
Episode 1: No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
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.
Episode 2: No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
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.
Episode 3: No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
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.
Episode 4: No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
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.
Episode 5: In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
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.
Episode 6: In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
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.
Episode 7: Kokoro - Chapter 1
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.
Episode 8: Kokoro - Chapter 2
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.
Episode 9: Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
Episode 10: Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
Episode 11: The Spider's Thread
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.
Episode 12: Hell Screen
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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