[DeepL Translation - needs review] A work by Osamu Dazai, a novelist of the early Showa period who represented the "Muyori-ha" or "New Caricature School" of doomed writers. It first appeared in "Kahoku Shimpo" [1945-1946]. The main character, Risuke Koshiba, who suffered from lung disease, is reborn as a new man after hearing the announcement of the war's final defeat, and begins a life of recuperation at a "health dojo" on a mountainside. Borrowing from the characters in the film, various i...
