俗天使 2024
MEAN ANGEL 14min / 3:4 / JAPAN / 2024
HAPPINESS ARRIVES ONE NIGHT TOO LATE
TORANOKO Performing Arts Company PRESENTS Inspired by Osamu Dazai’s novel “SCHOOLGIRL”
Written and Directed by YURIA MATSUSHITA Produced by ERIKA MATSUSHITA Director of Photography KONG PAHURAK
Music Director MAGDALENA ZUK Costume Designer ERIKA MATSUSHITA Production Designer YURIA MATSUSHITA
Lighting Design by MILO Sound Designer YUYA SHITO Edited by KONG PAHURAK
Line Producer YOSHIO KAMADA Assistance Producer HIROKO SHIMONO Associate Producer YOSHIKATSU SERIZAWA
Cast KOTOKO OMACHI, TAKAHIRO KUNIMOTO, HIYORI HAMADA, HONOKA MUKAI, AN NISHIHARA, HANAE KAMIHARA
SUZU KAMIHARA, SERI KONO, MEGUMI OTA
SYNOPSIS
HAPPINESS ARRIVES ONE NIGHT TOO LATE.
A world where Shizu’s diary and Dazai’s daydreams become intertwined. The time and place are in wartime Japan.
Shizu is a 14-year-old central character. She lives with her mother and is a student at a mysterious girls’ school. She feels suffocated in her world, she has daydreams and sudden mood swings, yet Shizu is a gifted writer who daily includes her thoughts in a diary.
Osamu Dazai is a teacher and a novelist who sees Shizu has special qualities and tries to get closer to her. Gradually Shizu’s daydreaming and Dazai’s writings become connected and transform into a realistic fantasy.
One morning Shizu comes to believe she has lost something important, and she leaves reality.