Romance photography

Author: [Japan] Ichikawa Taisuke
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Silly, sweet, and bittersweet—this is what love feels like. Being with you brings joy, peace, and relaxation. You think the days can go on like this forever, unaware that fate is gradually changing as you leave with a lifelong secret. The same-name movie, starring Hiroko Kuwae and Ryuhei Matsuda, has a 100% emotional impact. A super bestseller in Japan and Korea, it is the representative work of the incredibly popular Asian idol author Ichikawa Taisuke. Love Illustrated is a pure romance novel created by the talented online novelist Ichikawa Taisuke in 2003, known as a "tearjerker." The novel not only portrays the various tastes of young people's first love—shy, awkward, or sweet—but also blends themes of youth, unrequited love, friendship, growth, and death, along with fashionable elements of film, music, and especially photography. That's why some say, "Love Illustrated is like a pure and beautiful album of first love." In 2003, the novel Love Illustrated was adapted into a feature film of the same name, starring the popular Japanese idol celebrities Hiroko Kuwae and Ryuhei Matsuda. Critics have called it an elevation of the lingering charm of Imao Takashi's Love Letter, and it is regarded as a love miracle following Imao.