 It featured direction and screenplay by Masaaki Osumi, music by Kazumasa Oda, art by Hiroyuki Okiura and Satoshi Kon, and background art by Hiroshi Ohno.The first film was produced by Toei and the second by Visual 80, and both were based on the original short story written by Osamu Dazai in 1940.The movie tells the story of Melos, a Greek country man that gets arrested and accused of conspiracy against the king.