China was in turmoil in 1921 when renowned Japanese novelist Akutagawa Ryunosuke visits Shanghai as a newspaper correspondent. He'd read classic Chinese novels growing up but China is quite different from the utopian place that he was expecting. It's hard for him to reconcile fantasy with reality. In a country lost between hope and despair, the novelist meets a variety of locals from revolutionaries to prostitutes, each affecting him in unexpected ways.
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Part 1
Part 2
September, 1960 ( 昭和35年9月)
On his dislike of Dazai Osamu
On Love and Homosexuality
Voice Recording, August 26, 1954
Voice Recording
On Influential Authors
In which he calls Akutagawa "Morbid" and "Abnormal"
Video (narration only)
Selected Scenes from the DVD Extras where Atsushi's seiyuu, Uemura Yuuto, interviews the rest of the cast translated and Subtitled by BSD-Bibliophile.
Dark Era anime DVD Bonus
The BSD Seiyuu reading quotes from some of the most famous works by the author who inspired the character they play
Some of the literary references in the first two seasons of the BSD anime
This message was played before the DEAD APPLE movie at the North America theater premiere. (Yes, I secretly filmed this in the movie theater.)
Crunchyroll YouTube series that looks into the authors behind BSD
BSD Season 3 Ending Song
Based on No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu, as well as other semi-autobiographical and autobiographical works.
Based on the last few years of Dazai's life, this movie explores the relationships Dazai had with three women who greatly inspired his last works, including "The Setting Sun" and "No Longer Human".
You can purchase the movie on Amazon.co.jp or CD Japan.
*This title will be released on August 25, 2020
Osamu Dazai’s masterpiece of Japanese literature is re-imagined in this hyper-kinetic deep dive into human consciousness.
The year is 2036. A revolution in medical treatment has conquered death by means of internal nanomachines and the “Shell System”, yet only the richest can afford to partake.
Yozo Oba isn’t the richest. Troubled by strange dreams, he flippantly joins his friend’s biker gang on an ill-fated incursion to “The Inside”, where society’s elite lives. This instigates a journey of terrifying discovery that will change Yozo’s life forever.