Film | Event 81 – No Longer Human by Morio Asaka

This event scheduled on April 11 will be carried out on Kosmi, and our temporary link is https://app.kosmi.io/room/knc61a. Audiences from mainland China are able to join without VPN. The link to the online screening will be released in WeChat group slightly before the event starts. Any web browser works; there’s no need to install applications. This event will be followed by a Zoom sharing of Japanese literature during the Showa period on April 18.

Introduction

“I want to die. I must die. Life gestates sin.”

The decline of Kazuko class in Japan, which started at the beginning of the 20th century, reached its end two years after the end of the Second World War. The emperor abdicated his divinity, and the empire transmuted into a normal nation. The Japanese people now had to confront a new world markedly different from their chauvinist past, with the culture frontline being eroded and challenged.

No Longer Human is the struggle of the protagonist who comes from an eminent family. He flinches between life and death, candor and hatred, self-deprecation and self-righteousness. He typifies the character of the Showa period of Japan.

Trailer

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