The suicide rate in Japan in October 2020 is estimated to be 40% higher than that of the previous year. Besides such a current situation, there are three main motivations to produce this work: First, we can assume that each of these suicides has their own circumstances, but it is impossible to experience them, nor is it possible to recognize them individually. In other words, they are almost invisible. I lost my mother-in-law, with whom I lived, to suicide by hanging a few years ago, and there is no one else who can share it with me.
Second, I believe that "suicide" is not only a problem for the person who commits, but also a problem of the circumstances which make him or her do it. In other words, there may be an entity that wants to hang you. This includes not only those in authority or society, but also "me" of course.
Third, the attitude of this work, which at first glance appears to be a joke, is for me, who am left on the other shore, an expression of my attitude toward the other shore, a distinction, and a means for me to continue to live strongly. For me, who grew up being ridiculed as having "tragic heroine disease" if I was depressed, making everything into laughter in order to continue living is what I need, and it is a sincere attitude. In other words, a superficially depressed attitude is unworthy.
If anyone is hurt by viewing this work, I apologize not for having produced it, but for being 'born Osamu Matsuda.'"
(Osamu Matsuda, 2020)