It often accompanies short clips displaying the cover and pages of Osamu Dazai’s novel NO LONGER HUMAN (New Directions, 177 pp., paperback, $12.95), a modernist classic of dissipated alienation ...

Osamu Dazai’s bleak prose was matched only by his own misery The Japanese writer’s short-story collection “No One Knows” shows why he was the master of melancholy. February 7, 2025 ...

Mar 23, 2019 10:00:00 Revitalized Dazai Osamu's 'Human Disqualification' by Katsuhiro Motohiro x Bokuchi Kiso x Dengkata Dingbo × Polygon Pictures's 'The Human Disqualification' as a theater ...

Osamu Dazai, however, was one such figure who didn't fit the saint template. Major Japanese cultural figures often become subjects of films when big birth or death anniversaries roll around.

By Osamu Dazai, translated by Ralph McCarthy Fiction/New Directions/Paperback/232 pages/$24.16/Amazon SG (amzn.to/3UFkWhf) 4 stars. Born in 1909 in Aomori prefecture, the scandalous writer Osamu ...