Aoi Bungaku Series — Season 1, Episode 12: Hell Screen

Episode synopsis

Yoshihide, the greatest painter in the country, is commissioned to draw his greatest work, an image of the king's country inside his mausoleum. In the despotic king's realm, Yoshihide can see nothing but the suffering of the commoners. He decides to make his last work a tribute to the country as it really is.

About Aoi Bungaku Series

An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
• E2No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
• E3No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
• E4No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
• E5In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
• E6In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
• E7Kokoro - Chapter 1
• E8Kokoro - Chapter 2
• E9Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
• E10Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
• E11The Spider's Thread