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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.
A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (斜陽, Shayō) and No Longer Human (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern-day classics. [2] His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. His last book, No Longer Human, is his most popular work outside of Japan.
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No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito; it is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Osamu Dazai. It was serialized in Big Comic Original from May 2017 to April 2018 and published in three volumes.
During the novel's initial serial run, from 20 April to 11 August 1914, [2] it was printed under the title Kokoro: Sensei no isho (心 先生の遺書, Kokoro: Sensei's Testament). When later published in book form by Iwanami Shoten , its title was shortened to Kokoro ; the rendering of the word "kokoro" itself was also changed from kanji ( 心 ...
No Longer Human is a 2021 musical theatre adaptation of Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel No Longer Human, by American composer Frank Wildhorn with English lyrics by Tracy Miller and Carly Robyn Green, and Chinese lyrics by Ya Wen and Mingzhu Zheng. [1]
No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai (episode 1–4): The path of a man with intense feelings of alienation towards society and the feeling of "humanity".; In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom, by Ango Sakaguchi (episode 5–6): 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.
Human Lost (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku) is a 2019 Japanese 3D animated science fiction film based on Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel No Longer Human [1] and it is the first ever Polygon Pictures production not to be streamed on Netflix.