Villon's Wife (2009)

Both are about biographical films about the wife of famous artists. In Villon's wife is a writer and in Tokyo Biyori is Nobuyoshi Araki, Japan's leading photographer.

Osamu Dazai's literary work "No Longer Human" has received quite a few adaptations. This film is about the women in his life. In fact, the Japanese subtitle for Ninagawa’s film is ‘Osamu Dazai and three women.’

Based on one of the best known works of Japanese literary giant Osamu Dazai "No Longer Human", was the last in a series of commemorative film projects marking the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth in 2009. "No Longer Human" is semi-autobiographical, fixated on the idea of suicide, and charts the course of its protagonist as he becomes hopelessly lost in a life of dissipation, alcohol, drugs, and overwhelming depression.

Adaptation of the novel "The setting sun" (947) by Osamu Dazai. It is set in Japan after World War II. The story shows a family in decline and crisis, like many other families during this period of transition between traditional Japan and a more advanced, industrial society.

Adaptation of Osamu Dazai novel "Pandora's box" (1945). Inspired by events from Dazai’s own life, the story centres around a young man at the end of the second world war who has been suffering from tuberculosis for some time but kept quiet about it expecting to die soon and remove the burden on his family. However, when the war finally ends Risuke inherits a new will to live and commits himself to a sanatorium to treat his lung condition. Whilst in the hospital he comes into contact with writers and poets as well as pretty nurses all the while proceeding with his plan to become a “new man” for this “new era”.