(grave of the fireflies mentioned) (stampedes into the comments section) the short story "american hijiki" was written the same year, during nosaka's bad boy era........ ok tbh he never left that era but yknow. it contains his recollections of the postwar occupation. nosaka is a huge character -- here's a video of him punching his bff nagisa oshima after giving a toast at the latter's 30th wedding anniversary (the story is that they mistakenly didn't call him up to the stage bc they thought he had already left, but he was still there, waiting and getting shwasted) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CNy0eIzuY i really can't say enough things about this dude. google his whiskey ads. idk
(grave of the fireflies mentioned) (stampedes into the comments section) the short story "american hijiki" was written the same year, during nosaka's bad boy era........ ok tbh he never left that era but yknow. it contains his recollections of the postwar occupation. nosaka is a huge character -- here's a video of him punching his bff nagisa oshima after giving a toast at the latter's 30th wedding anniversary (the story is that they mistakenly didn't call him up to the stage bc they thought he had already left, but he was still there, waiting and getting shwasted) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CNy0eIzuY i really can't say enough things about this dude. google his whiskey ads. idk
even though I knew what was going to happen (because you told me) I still laughed out loud