Box of Pandora

Box of Pandora (Selected) / Dazai Osamu selected Works by Dazai Osamu collects Box of Pandora and Raymond's wife. Box of Pandora revealed the author's depression from his heart, consistent confusion for the future and thinking of life and death. Compared with the cold style of Human Disqualification, the style of Box of Pandorawas warm, lively and playful, showing clear and bright luster and hope for future everywhere. Raymond's wife was the author's short story collection and the article with the same name in the book was famous work of Dazai Osamu. Raymond's wife was metaphor of the wife of a dissolute man. When her husband was bibulosity, in debt, ran away with a woman and finally threw himself into the water, a woman had to maintain the family, went out to serve as a maid to pay off the debt for her husband. In 2009, the movie Raymond's wife with the same name as the book, directed by Kichitaro Negishi and performed by Matsu Takaiko and Tadanobu Asano, won the best director award at the 33rd World Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.