The movie tells the story of Melos, a Greek country man that gets arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king. He gets three days to travel to his sister's wedding while Selinentius (Selinae), a genius sculptor that Melos just met stays as a hostage.
Direction
Osumi's theatrical staging of intimate moral crises
Writing
Dazai's source story adapted with surprising restraint
Acting
Yamadera's Melos: naive desperation done beautifully
Director
Masaaki Osumi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Osamu Dazai's 1940 short story, itself a retelling of a German legend from Friedrich Schiller — this is layers of reinterpretation wearing a toga.
Megumi Hayashibara voices Clair here, just two years before she'd become anime royalty as Rei Ayanami in Evangelion.
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