"No Longer Human" remake movie version Oguri Shun's Dazai Osamu look revealed

Japanese female director Mika Ninagawa ("The Untamed" and "Oiran") will shoot the movie "No Longer Human", with Shun Oguri playing Dazai Osamu. The film is written by Hayafune Utako, the screenwriter of "Paper Moon", and the photography is by Ryuto Kondo of "Shoplifters".

The line "I'm sorry for being born a human" in the movie "No Longer Human" has made many people know "No Longer Human" and Dazai Osamu. It is reported that the film is not a simple adaptation of Dazai Osamu's novel of the same name, but focuses on the secrets behind the creation of the novel and the stories between Dazai Osamu and the three women he loved.

Dazai attempted suicide five times in his life (the first four failed), three of which were with three different women. The stories between him and these three women have always been speculated and interpreted by the outside world.

It is reported that in order to play the role of Dazai Osamu, Oguri Shun lost a lot of weight in a short period of time. He said that his current life is to get closer to Dazai Osamu step by step, hoping to interpret the tragic life of a great writer.

Mika Ninagawa is a first-line visual artist in Japan. She has only directed two feature films so far, "The Untold Story" and "Oiran", but both have performed well. "No Longer Human" will be her third feature film as a director and her first work after the death of her father, Yukio Ninagawa, a contemporary Japanese drama master.

She said, "I want to film the story of Dazai Osamu himself. From the moment I had this idea, I felt that no one else could play this role except Oguri Shun." Because Oguri Shun continues to be a top-tier actor, he has seen scenery that others cannot see and experienced loneliness that others cannot experience.

Dazai Osamu's novel "No Longer Human" was adapted into a movie in 2010. Toma Ikuta played the protagonist Ohba Yozo, who was also a reflection of Dazai Osamu's self. However, due to Toma Ikuta's excessive handsomeness, the movie almost became a fan movie, which attracted many complaints.

In addition, in 2002, Kawamura Ryuichi played Dazai Osamu in "No Longer Human", which was adapted from the biography of Dazai Osamu written by Naoki Inose. In 1994, Domoto Tsuyoshi starred in the Japanese drama "No Longer Human", which actually had nothing to do with the novel, but borrowed the name, which also caused controversy among Dazai Osamu's descendants.