No Longer Human (2009)

Ningen Shikkaku / 人間失格

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No Longer Human”, based on Osamu Dazai’s novel “No Longer Human”, is about the manga artist Furuya Usamaru, who stumbles across Youzou Ooba’s diary while researching his latest manga on the internet. It doesn’t take him long to realise that this diary is anything but normal. Youzou no longer sees himself as a human being. Every day, he wanders through life with a façade of hollow cheerfulness, laughing and pretending to “live”. In truth, all he really wants to do is die. One day, he finally meets a woman named Ageha, with whom he wants to commit a “double suicide”. However, the suicide attempt comes to a surprising end …

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In honour of the 100th birthday of Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya retells Dazai’s most important work, “No Longer Human”, in modern-day Tokyo, where modern vices can bring ruin to self-loathing.
In »No Longer Human«, basierend auf Osamu Dazais Roman »Gezeichnet«, geht es um den Mangazeichner Furuya Usamaru, der während der Recherchearbeit für seinen neusten Manga im Internet über das Tagebuch von Youzou Ooba stolpert. Schon nach kürzester Zeit wird ihm klar, dass dieses Tagebuch alles andere als normal ist. Youzou sieht sich selbst nämlich nicht mehr als einen Menschen; tagtäglich wandert er mit einer Fassade hohler Heiterkeit durch das Leben, lacht und tut so, als würde er »leben«. In Wahrheit will er eigentlich nur noch sterben. Eines Tages trifft er schließlich eine Frau namens Ageha, mit der er zusammen einen »Doppelsuizid« begehen will. Allerdings nimmt der Selbstmordversuch ein überraschendes Ende …
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Yozo è il ragazzo perfetto. Educato, socievole, spiritoso. Chiunque lo adora e il segreto del suo successo è … fingere. Ispirato all’omonimo romanzo best seller di Osamu Dazai e realizzato da Usamaru Furuya, un inquietante viaggio nella mente di un giovane, una penetrante riflessione sul rapporto tra individuo e società.
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  • Youzou OOBA

    I don't want to die ... I can't even die ... And yet I don't want to live ... What am I supposed to do?! Haven't I had enough? Do I need to suffer the world and fear humans more ... before I can muster the courage to die?

  • Youzou OOBA

    I am a genius ... parasite on women.

  • Youzou OOBA

    In other words, I don't understand human beings one whit. Human beings terrify me ...

  • Youzou OOBA

    The city signs all proclaimed it. Apparently, I was no longer human at all.

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