1. No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
24min
10th Oct 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.
Episodes
Cast
Season 1
2. No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
24min
17th Oct 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.
3. No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
24min
24th Oct 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.
4. No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
24min
31st Oct 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.
5. In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
24min
7th Nov 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.
6. In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
24min
14th Nov 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.
7. Kokoro - Chapter 1
24min
21st Nov 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.
8. Kokoro - Chapter 2
24min
21st Nov 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.
9. Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
24min
28th Nov 2009
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
10. Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
24min
5th Dec 2009
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
11. The Spider's Thread
24min
26th Dec 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.
12. Hell Screen
24min
26th Dec 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.
First air date
10th Oct 2009
Last air date
26th Dec 2009
Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
Original language
ja