Animation20091 season★ 6.8
Aoi Bungaku Series
An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.
Episodes
1No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
Oct 10, 200924 min
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.
2No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
Oct 17, 200924 min
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.
3No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
Oct 24, 200924 min
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.
4No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
Oct 31, 200924 min
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.
5In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
Nov 7, 200924 min
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.
6In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
Nov 14, 200924 min
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.
7Kokoro - Chapter 1
Nov 21, 200924 min
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.
8Kokoro - Chapter 2
Nov 21, 200924 min
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.
9Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
Nov 28, 200924 min
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
10Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
Dec 5, 200924 min
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
11The Spider's Thread
Dec 26, 200924 min
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.
12Hell Screen
Dec 26, 200924 min
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.
