일본드라마 『사랑따윈 필요없어, 여름』의 주제 고찰

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study the themes of Japanese drama “Love me not, this summer”. The research is divided into 3 parts: 1. discussions on the historical background of the drama and the author’s personal experiences, 2. study on the structure of the drama, highlighting its turning points and story line, 3. derivation and summary of the main subject of the drama. The study shows that Japanese people experienced economic slump called ‘The Lost Decade’ in 2002, when the drama was released while their life was wealthy with Japan’s world's second largest economy position. However, they felt uneasy and stressed inside under the moral chaos and disorder of society. They were looking for inner comfort, which leads to ‘comfort boom’ in 1999 that consequently grew up explosively in Japan. The author has been known as ‘hit maker’ since her debut. Her focus has been on the second󰠏class person, addressing the matter of life and death. The main character of the drama, Reizi, grew up as an orphan and denied love, closing his mind and lived a life filled with lies. However, his mind gradually became open throughout his encounter and interactions with Ako, who was a daughter of a company chairman and visually handicapped. Through the confession of his love to her, he was released from the life filled with lies. At the moment, he was awakened with ontological love finally. It struck him with a conversion from dark to light, in other words, from false to truth, from hatred to love, from despair to hope, and from death to life. Therefore the themes of this drama is to forgive himself and to overcome his lies, ultimately to discover ontological love.