25 February 2010

人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku


Title: 人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku
English Title:
  •  No Longer Human
  • The Fallen Angel
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Year: 2010
Cast:
  • 生田斗真 Ikuta Tōma
  • 伊勢谷友介 Iseya Yusuke
  • 石原さとみ Ishihara Satomi
  • 小池栄子 Koike Eiko
  • 坂井真紀 Sakai Maki
  • 寺島しのぶ Terajima Shinobu
  • 室井滋 Muroi Shigeru
  • 石橋蓮司 Ishibashi Renji
  • 森田剛 Morita Go
  • 大楠道代 Okusu Michiyo
  • 三田佳子 Mita Yoshiko

SYNOPSIS
Oba Yozo was born into a wealthy family in Tsugaru. As a child he practiced smiling to hide his true feelings and to get along with others. His classmate Dakeichi found out about Yozo's eccentric behavior and told others about him. But Dakeichi also told Yozo a strange prediction about his life; that he will become popular with the ladies and draw beautiful pictures.

During Yozo's high school years he moved to Tokyo. In Tokyo he meets Horiki, a guy six years older than him. Horiki is known for being a player and one day drags Yozo to the Blue Flower Bar run by Madame Ritsuko. There is poet Chuya Nakahara at the bar who proclaims "war is brown like the color of shit". Yozo doesn't say anything as he takes in the environment.

Yozo starts to drink more often and starts to live the fast life like Horiki. Like Dakeichi's prediction, Yozo also becomes popular with the ladies and always has a woman next to him. But Yozo starts to become sick of this lifestyle.

At a cafe, Yozo meets Hisako, a women who lets him drink without paying. Yozo senses that Hisako feels a heavy sense of loneliness like himself. One day Yozo and Hisako attempts to kill themselves out in the Sea of Kamakura. Hisako dies, but Yozo survives. His family then takes Yozo to a sanitarium...

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人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku