Movie Details
Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Grand Prix Excellent
Cast & Crew
N
Naoki Inose
Original Story
H
Hidehiro Ito
Director
山田耕太
Script
M
Michiru Oshima
Music
S
Shōhei Andō
Cinematography
Picaresque
DirectorHidehiro Ito
2 hr 13 min
Plot
On June 19, 1948, the bodies of Japanese novelist and short-story writer Osamu Dazai and his lover Tomie Yamazaki are found drowned in the Tamagawa Canal in Tokyo. Osamu Dazai previously attempted to take his own life at least three other times. During the post war period, Osamu Dazai's reached the reached the height of his popularity and he became the literary voice for a "lost generation." After their bodies are found people wondered if Tomie Yamazaki was the cause of Osamu Dazai's death.
