The Film Stars on the Road : A Study of Kimi-no-na-wa(<Special Issue>Fantasy and Utopia in Postwar Japanese Literature)

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  • 巡りゆくスターたち : 『君の名は』研究(<特集>戦後日本文学における"幻想(ファンタスム)/理想郷(ユートピア)"のゆくえ)
  • 巡りゆくスターたち--『君の名は』研究
  • メグリユク スタータチ キミ ノ ナ ワ ケンキュウ

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Kimi-no-na-wa by Kazuo Kikuta was one of the bestsellers in the 1950s. In 1954, two years after its publication, the love story was filmed, and its film version also made a great hit. Keiko Kishi and Keiji Sada, the film stars who played the couple of the melodrama, went on a tour all over the country for the advertising campaign. It was just at that time that the Emperor made his imperial visits across the country to impress the public with his new identity as a national symbol. Although apparently unrelated, the two events seem to have had the same ideological function. For, through symbolical manipulations, both of them eventually helped to create a new type of nation-state in postwar Japan.

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