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Shitsurakuen
is 1997 Japanese novel by author Junichi Watanabe. It tells the story of a 54-year-old married former magazine editor, his affair with a 37-year-old married typesetter and their double-suicide. The couple, Kūki and Rinko, are modeled after the famous case of Sada Abe. The book became a bestseller throughout Asia, selling 3 million copies in Japan. ''Shitsurakuen'' became a slang word for having an affair. It was first serialized in the business newspaper ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' in 1995. The book was made into a film and a TV drama the same year. The film ''Lost Paradise'' was nominated for 13 Japan Academy Prizes winning one with Hitomi Kuroki Hitomi Kuroki (Japanese: ; Katakana: ''Kuroki Hitomi''; born October 5, 1960, in Kurogi-Machi, Yame District, Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese actress and film director. Her birth name is Shoko Ichiji ( ''Ichiji Shōko'') née Egami ( ''Egami Shōk ... for lead actress. References External links * (film) ''Shitsurakuen''at J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Paradise (film)
is a 1997 Japanese drama film based on the novel '' A Lost Paradise'' by Junichi Watanabe. Cast *Kōji Yakusho - Shoichiro Kuki *Hitomi Kuroki - Rinko Matsubaro *Akira Terao - Kinugawa * Toshio Shiba - Haruhiko Matsubara *Tomoko Hoshino - Fumie Kuki (wife) *Yoshino Kimura - Chika (daughter) Release ''Lost Paradise'' was the second highest grossing Japanese film of 1997 domestically in Japan being only beaten by ''Princess Mononoke is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida ...''. It grossed a total of 2.3 billion yen. References External links * 1990s erotic drama films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Yoshimitsu Morita Japanese erotic drama films 1997 drama films 1997 films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Academy Prize For Outstanding Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role
The of the Japan Academy Prize is one of the annual Awards given by the ''Nippon Academy-sho association'' (Japan Academy Prize Association). On 2020, Shim Eun-kyung Shim Eun-kyung (born May 31, 1994) is a South Korean actress. She has starred in the box office hits '' Sunny'' (2011), ''Miss Granny'' (2014) and ''Fabricated City'' (2017), as well as television series ''Naeil's Cantabile'' (2014). In 2020, s ..., a South Korean, became the first non-Japanese actress to win this award. List of winners Multiple wins The following individuals received multiple Best Actress awards: External links Japan Academy Film Prize official website *The winner and nominees {{Japan Academy Prize for Best Actress Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Film awards for lead actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junichi Watanabe (writer)
was a Japanese writer. Biography Jun'ichi Watanabe was born in Kamisunagawa, Hokkaido, Japan. His starting point as a literate was the death of a classmate who was his first love in high school. He published his first works while still studying at Sapporo Medical University, where he graduated in 1958. He specialised in orthopedic surgery, while at the same time writing medical, historical, and biographical novels. Following the scandal about the first heart transplant operation performed in Japan in 1968, which became known as the "Wada incident", Watanabe left his medical profession and concentrated on writing. Watanabe wrote more than 50 novels in total, and won awards including the 1970 Naoki Prize for ''Hikari to kage'' (lit. "Light and shadow"), and the Yoshikawa Eiji Prize in 1979 for ''Toki rakujitsu'' ("The Setting Sun in the Distance) and ''Nagasaki roshia yujokan'' ("The Russian brothel of Nagasaki"). He gained wide attention with a series of sexually explicit novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Winters Carpenter
Juliet Winters Carpenter (born 1948) is an American translator of modern Japanese literature. Born in the American Midwest, she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. After completing her graduate studies in 1973, she returned to Japan in 1975, where she became involved in translation efforts and teaching. Carpenter is a devotee of traditional Japanese music and is a licensed instructor of the koto and shamisen. She is professor emeritus at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto and has been involved in the Japanese Literature Publishing Project(JLPP), a government-supported project translating and publishing Japanese books overseas. Carpenter retired to Whidbey Island in Washington State with her husband Bruce, professor emeritus of Tezukayama University. They have three childrenMatthew Edwin Carpenter Graham, and Mark. Carpenter's translation of Abe Kobo's novel '' Secret Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Japanese Novels
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