Movie

Pure love movies are in fashion in Japan for some years. This boom was sparked by Winter Sonata, a korean TV drama. Recently, Socrates in Love attracted 6.2million viewers. According to the survey of The Daily Yomiuri, pure love movies hold the top three of box office profits of Japanese movie in 2005. We can see all the rage of pure love movies from these data. One Korean cultural critic says that a savage social atmosphere of late such as terrorism and the Iraq War is the reason behind the boom of pure love movie in Japan. And he says a depression in these years influence too. These things show that the boom of pure love movie in Japan is likely to continue for a while.