inception saibou bungaku
One such literary work , " No Longer Human ", has received quite a few adaptations : a film directed by Genjiro Arato , the first four episodes of the anime series " Aoi Bungaku ", and a manga serialized in Shinchosha ' s " Comic Bunch " magazine . While Dazai continues to be widely celebrated in Japan , he remains relatively unknown in the United States with only a handful of his novels available in English . Saibou Bungaku is a Japanese Psych folk / Freak folk / Blues band . The members are Tomoaki Saito ( G / Vo ) and Seijiro Kuroda ( Cello ) . Tomoaki Saito also sings as a solo . Seijiro Kuroda sometimes plays as a member of Tenniscoats , Gofish , etc . . . The name `` Saibou Bungaku '' is after the title of the fanzine issued by Osamu Dazai in ___MASK27___ . Career . In ___MASK34___ , Arato produced " Zigeunerweisen " for director Seijun Suzuki . He was unable to secure exhibitors for the film and famously exhibited it himself in a specially - built , inflatable , mobile tent . The film won four Japanese Academy Awards , including Best Picture , and was voted the best Japanese film of the 1980s by Japanese critics . He also produced Tatsushi mori ' s " The Whispering of the Gods " in ___MASK65___ . The field holler or field call is a mostly historical type of vocal music sung by southern labourers to accompany their work , to communicate usefully or to vent feelings . It differs from the collective work song in that it was sung solo , though early observers noted that a holler , or  cry , might be echoed by other workers . Though commonly associated with cotton cultivation , the field holler was also sung by levee workers , and field hands in rice and sugar plantations . Field hollers are also known as corn - field hollers , water calls , and whoops . An early description is from ___MASK84___ and the first recordings are from the 1930s . The holler is closely related to the call and response of work songs , and arhoolies , to Afro - American and ultimately influenced strands of African American music , such as the blues , rhythm and blues , and spirituals . Yumbo is a small , industrial city and municipality in western Colombia . It is located in the Valle del Cauca Department , just north of Cali . In ___MASK51___ , it had a population of approximately 70 , 000 inhabitants . Shinchosha ___MASK17___ . In ___MASK66___ , Shinchosha published a short story named " Grave of the Fireflies " as a novel written by Akiyuki Nosaka . 21 years later , " Grave of the Fireflies " was turned into a film by director Isao Takahata , animated by Studio Ghibli and co - distributed by Bandai Visual under their Emotion label and Toho . In turn , Shinchosha produced that film as Shinchosha ___MASK17___ . The film was released in Japanese theaters on April ___MASK6___ , ___MASK17___ . It was then licensed and released in North America as a subtitled VHS by Central Park Media on June 2 , 1993 , and later a 2 - disc DVD by the same company in the same region , with the 1st disc featuring an English dub produced by Skypilot Entertainment and the original Japanese with English subtitles . The 2nd disc contained a retrospective on the author of the original book , an interview with the director , and an interview with critic Roger Ebert , who had expressed his admiration for the film on several occasions and ranked the film as one of the greatest of all time . Following the April 27 , 2009 bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media , ADV Films acquired the North American rights and re - released it on DVD on July 7 , 2009 , followed by former CPM titles such as " MD Geist ", " Now and Then , Here and There " and " The World of Narue ". Following the September 1 , 2009 shutdown and rebranding of ADV Films , their successor , Sentai Filmworks , rescued the film and re - released it a remastered DVD on March 6 , ___MASK100___ and plans on releasing the film on digital outlets . A Blu - ray edition was released on November 20 , ___MASK100___ , featuring an all - new English dub produced by Seraphim Digital . StudioCanal released a Blu - ray in the United Kingdom on July 1 , 2013 , followed by a " Kiki ' s Delivery Service " release on that same format . with Madman Entertainment releasing the film in Australia and New Zealand . Tenniscoats is a Japanese band with two members , Saya & Takashi Ueno , but they often have guest musicians ( and non - musicians ) playing and performing with them . The guest musicians are for example , Secai , LSD March , Eddie Marcon , Popo , Saibou Bungaku , Tetsuya Umeda , Kazumi Nikaido , etc . Saya and Takashi have also performed in many other underground bands , such as Maher Shalal Hash Baz , Cacoy , Puka Puka Brians , Yumbo and others . Saya and Takashi have also released solo works . The ___MASK3___ - bar blues or " blues changes " is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music . The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics , phrase , chord structure , and duration . In its basic form , it is predominantly based on the I - IV - V chords of a key . Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century . The genre developed from roots in African musical traditions , African - American work songs and European - American folk music . Blues incorporated spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts , chants , and rhymed simple narrative ballads . The blues form , ubiquitous in jazz , rhythm and blues and rock and roll , is characterized by the call - and - response pattern , the blues scale and specific chord progressions , of which the twelve - bar blues is the most common . Blue notes ( or " worried notes "), usually thirds or fifths flattened in pitch , are also an essential part of the sound . Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance - like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove .