A Lost Paradise Explained
is a 1997 Japanese novel by author Junichi Watanabe. It tells the story of a married, former magazine editor aged 54; his affair with a married 37-year-old typesetter and their double-suicide. The couple, Kūki and Rinko, are modeled after the famous case of Sada Abe.[1] [2] [3]
The book became a bestseller throughout Asia, selling 3 million copies in Japan. Shitsurakuen became a slang word for having an affair.[4] It was first serialized in the business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun in 1995.[5] [6] 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 for lead actress.[7]
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- Book: West, Mark D.. Secrets, sex, and spectacle: the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States. University of Chicago Press. 2006. 272. 0-226-89408-8. 2009-05-26.
- Book: Marran, Christine L.. Poison woman: figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture. U of Minnesota Press. 2007. 161–163. 0-8166-4727-5. 2009-05-26.
- News: The husband instruction manual. 2004-06-07. China Daily / eastday.com. 2009-05-26.
- News: Lust and seduction top stock news. Osedo. Hiroshi. 2 February 2005. The Courier-Mail. 2009-05-26. ..Shitsurakuen (A Lost Paradise) appeared in.... 2012-02-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20120215150329/http://www.newstext.com.au/docs/CML/2005/get.jsp?docid=CML-20050202-1-015-4088409V11@QLD-METRO-2006-2005. dead.
- News: The master of secret sin. Yao. Minji. 28 June 2008. Shanghai Daily. 2009-05-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20090620041922/http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200806/20080628/article_364808.htm. 20 June 2009 . live.
- Web site: http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/allprizes/1998/index.html . Japan Academy Prize Association . Japanese . ja:第21回 日本アカデミー賞 . Japan Academy Prize website . 2009-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090428070522/http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/allprizes/1998/index.html . 28 April 2009 . dead .
