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</b>Japanese literary master Junichi Watanabe has recently passed away suddenly. Mr. Watanabe wrote more than 50 novels, essays, and essays during his lifetime, more than a dozen of which have been adapted into film and television dramas. We have selected ten of these classics to commemorate this famous writer.
</b>Paradise Lost
Director: Yoshimitsu Morita
Starring: Koji Yakusho / Akira Terao / Hitomi Makigi / Toshio Shiba / Tomoko Hoshino / Yoshino Kimura
Based on Junichi Watanabe's masterpiece of the same name, the film explores the inner instincts and desires of human beings through the storyline of the couple's extramarital affair. The film's director, Yoshimitsu Morita, was nominated for Best Director at the 21st Japan Academy Awards, and actor Hitomi Kuroki won the Best Actress Award at the 22nd Hochi Film Awards.
Ladder of clouds
Performed by Ryuichi Inomata / Hitoshi Iwamoto / Hiroshi Yoshino
Starring: Hiromi Kayatani / Izumi Kaya / Fumino Kimura / Akito Hagiwara / Sho Aoyagi / Misei Yuki / Ryoko Kimura / Kazuaki Hanumi / Mariko Kaba / Yumi Manikawa / Kohei Otomo / Takashi Naito
In 2013, Japanese television for the first time adapted Junichi Watanabe's famous novel "Ladder of Clouds" into a medical love suspense drama. The drama revolves around the career growth of the young physician Saburō Aikawa, telling the story of his fate.
Reasons not to break up
Director: Yasuo the Flag Lowered
Starring: Yoshiko Mita / Masahiko Tsugawa / Masato Furuotani / Reiko Nanjo / Yoko Imako
The film is based on the original work of Junichi Watanabe and released in 1987. The film shows the delicate relationship between Japanese couples who are humble and jealous of each other. Because both partners believe that family is the most important, they cannot break up even if they are constantly conflicted. Yoshiko Mita and Masahiko Tsurukawa won the 1987 Blue Ribbon Best Actress award and the 1987 Japan Oscar, The Movie Shunbun, and the 1987 Best Supporting Actor Award.
Under the cherry blossom trees
Director : Ritsuichi Takamori
Starring : Shima Iwashita / Yukiyo Jushu / Masahiko Tsugawa / Nahoko Kubo / Nobu Terada
Created in 1989, the film focuses on the unruly love between a man and a mother and daughter. Its magnificent cherry blossom scene is taken from Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden, which has become a popular tourist attraction today.
Wedding rings
Director : Shichiri Kei
Starring : Kei Kobashi / Shoki Hosaka / Ishito Takahashi / Asami Nakamura
Based on Jun Watanabe's novel of the same name, it was released in 2007. The film is still the theme of extramarital love, mainly about the quiet emotional story between male and female colleagues in the company.
A patch of snow
Director : Yoshitaro Negishi
Starring : Kumiko Akiyoshi / Masahiko Tsugawa / Naomi Okino / Midori Kiuchi / Chiharu Iwamoto / Ryo Ikebe / Kazunori Kishibe
The 1985 film, based on the novel of the same name, depicts Kasumi as a woman perfect from the perspective of a man, Iori.
incarnation
Director : Toyo-ichi
Starring: Hitomi Kuroki / Tatsuya Fuji / Ryoko Aki
A 1986 film based on Jun Watanabe's novel of the same name. The film mainly shows the love relationship between the professor and the hokkaido woman. The film made her film debut for actor Hitomi Kuroki, and was awarded the American Film Institute award for Best Actress for her bold performance.
The land of love
Director : Yasuo Tsuruhashi
Starring : Shinobu Teraki / Etsuji Kashikawa / Kyoko Kayatani / Toru Nakamura / Hiroichi Sato
Adapted in 2007 from Jun Watanabe's novel of the same name, the film is still based on the themes of "Unruly" and "Love and Death", with explicit sex scenes.
Tear pot
Director : Keihisa Setze
Starring: Kanako Kojima / Kazunari Ishida / Aiko Sato
In the 2008 film, the moment depicts a young student's love triangle entanglement with a village doctor and his sister, with a tight plot and a thick atmosphere. Junichi Watanabe's unusual imagination is fully displayed in the film.
makeup
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Starring: Keiko Matsuzaka / Kimiko Ikegami / Machiko Kyo / Takakazu Nakai / Juzo Itami
1984 film. Originally written in the first person, the psychoanalytic novel won the Shincho Fan magazine award in Japan. The story mainly recounts the delicate feelings of the mother who presides over the family business in the traditional pavilion in Kyoto and the three sisters in the family and their attitudes towards marriage, life and lovers.
Author: Zhuang Tianchen
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