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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

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Season 1

8.9/1076 votes
No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.8/1075 votes
No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.4/1078 votes
No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2009
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.
Director: Issei Kume
Writer: Unknown
8.4/1058 votes
Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2009
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.3/1088 votes
No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2009
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.
Director: Kojiro Tsuruoka
Writer: Satoshi Suzuki
8.3/1063 votes
Kokoro - Chapter 2
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
8.0/1058 votes
Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2009
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.9/1061 votes
Kokoro - Chapter 1
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.6/1053 votes
Hell Screen
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Yuji Kobayashi, Atsuko Ishizuka
6.8/1053 votes
The Spider's Thread
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/26/2009
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.6/1057 votes
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2009
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.
Director: Tetsuro Araki
Writer: Ken Iizuka
6.3/1058 votes
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2009
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.
Director: Miho Hirao
Writer: Ken Iizuka