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2 More of Osamu Dazai's Short Stories Animated for TV
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The Japanese public broadcaster Someday's Dreamers) and Mariko Takahashi. This mini-series commemorates the 100th anniversary of Dazai's birth.
Dazai's 1944 "Yuki no Yo no Hanashi" (pictured at right) is a humorous fantasy story that takes place on one dream-like snowy night. Keshu #203 directs this episode, and actresses Ikebukuro West Gate Park Soup no Kai), and others read the story aloud.
In the 1947 "Tokatonton" short story (pictured at left), a former World War II soldier is haunted with the sense of emptiness from Japan's defeat, and that empty feeling resonates throughout his life after the war. The original story was published just one year before Dazai's suicide. Computer animation director Shūhei Shibue directs the "Tokatonton" anime, and actor Hideki Noda recites the story.
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Source: Sankei Shimbun
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