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Blue Literature Series

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7.3(48711 votes)
2009

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Episodes

Episode 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Overview

The series consists of adaptations of six modern classics of Japanese literature: Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) & Run Melos! (Hashire Melos!), Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) & The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito), and Ango Sakaguchi's In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita). No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) - A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and a...

Details

Genres

Drama, Psychological, Thriller

Language

jp

Available On

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Cast

Youzou Ooba

Masato Sakai

Youzou Ooba

Tsuneko

Romi Park

Tsuneko

Shigemaru

Masato Sakai

Shigemaru

Akiko

Nana Mizuki

Akiko

Sensei

Masato Sakai

Sensei

K

Rikiya Koyama

K

Ojousan

Houko Kuwashima

Ojousan

Widow

Shouko Tsuda

Widow

Takada

Hidenobu Kiuchi

Takada

Dionysius II

Ryuusei Nakao

Dionysius II

Melos

Masato Sakai

Melos

Serinentius

Hiroyuki Yoshino

Serinentius