Iwa ni Hana

As I was saying, Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita [桜の森の満開の下] by Sakaguchi Ango [坂口安吾] was my most anticipated storyarc in the anime series Aoi Bungaku produced by Madhouse. I have read the original story and also watched the 1975 film adaptation by Shinoda Masahiro [篠田正浩]. I sometimes think of that story as the Japanese answer to Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and J.K. Huysmans’s novel À rebours.

Screenshot of the OP of "In the Woods Beneath Cherries in Full Bloom"

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