Sato Eriko to Star in Shayo Movie

On Wednesday, it was publicly announced that Dazai Osamu’s best known novel, “Shayo” (”The Setting Sun”), will be turned into a motion picture. Director Akihara Masatoshi is in charge of the adaptation, which is set to start filming this November. The novel, first published in 1947 a year before Dazai’s death, examined the need for social [...]