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  2. No Longer Human - Wikipedia

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    No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.

  3. Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman - Wikipedia

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    Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman is a 2022 Yoruba-language Nigerian historical drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and distributed by Netflix, based on Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman, a stage play he wrote while in Cambridge, where he was a fellow student at Churchill College during his political exile from Nigeria, [1] and it is based on a real incident that took place in ...

  4. Death and the King's Horseman - Wikipedia

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    Death and the King's Horseman builds upon the true story on which Soyinka based the play, to focus on the character of Elesin, the King's Horseman of the title. According to some Yoruba traditions, the death of the king must be followed by the ritual suicide of the king's horseman as well as the king's dog and horse, because the horseman's spirit is essential to helping the King's spirit ...

  5. The Flowers of Buffoonery - Wikipedia

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    The Flowers of Buffoonery (道化の華, Dōke no Hana) is a 1935 Japanese novella by Osamu Dazai.Initially titled The Sea (海, Umi) in an early draft Dazai shared with friends, [1] the work was first published [2] in the short-lived coterie journal Nihon romanha [] and has been described as a "major contribution" to the magazine. [3]

  6. Osamu Dazai - Wikipedia

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    Shūji Tsushima (津島 修治, Tsushima Shūji, 19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), known by his pen name Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese novelist and author. [1]

  7. Obake no Q-Tarō - Wikipedia

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    Q-Tarō, also known as "Q-chan" or "Oba-Q", is a mischief-maker who likes to fly around scaring people and stealing food, though he is deathly afraid of dogs. The story is usually focused on the antics of Q-Tarō and his friends. The manga was drawn in 1964–1966, 1971–1974, 1976 by the duo Fujiko Fujio (Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko).

  8. Yōzō - Wikipedia

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    Yōzō can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: 洋三, "ocean, 3" 洋蔵, "ocean, store up" 洋造, "ocean, create" 陽三, "sunshine, 3"

  9. Ọba kò so - Wikipedia

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    Much of the success of Oba Kò So was in part due to the uniqueness of his creative vision to merge a mythological and human form into the character of Sango, in which Ladipo played himself, as his embodiment of this Yoruba deity reflected a deep personal and cultural connection Ladipo had to the worship of Sango and Yoruba traditions in general.