“Yasuko, Songs of Days Past”: New Film Remembers Poet Nakahara Chūya and a Literary Love Triangle

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A still from the film Yasuko, Songs of Days Past. From left: Nakahara Chūya (Kido Taisei), Kobayashi Hideo (Okada Masaki), Hasegawa Yasuko (Hirose Suzu). (© 2025 Yasuko, Songs of Days Past Production Committee)

Chūya in Kyoto, immersed in Arthur Rimbaud’s Une saison en enfer. (© 2025 Yasuko, Songs of Days Past Production Committee)

Chūya and Kobayashi bond over literature while Yasuko looks on skeptically. (© 2025 Yasuko, Songs of Days Past Production Committee)

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Kobayashi confesses that he’s growing tired of life with Yasuko. (© 2025 Yasuko, Songs of Days Past Production Committee)

Kobayashi can’t take his eyes off the beautiful Yasuko. (© 2025 Yasuko, Songs of Days Past Production Committee)

(© Igarashi Kazuharu)

(© 2025 Yasuko, Songs of Days Past Production Committee)

(© 2025 Yasuko, Songs of Days Past Production Committee)