Season of the Sun

Season of the Sun (太陽の季節, Taiyō no Kisetsu) is a Japanese novel written in 1955 by Shintaro Ishihara, who later became a politician and was governor of Tokyo for 13 years from 1999-2012. It is the source of the name of the rebellious, taiyozoku (太陽族) youth culture which emerged after World War II.^[1] The novel won the 1956 Akutagawa Prize.

In 2012 it inspired the name of Ishihara's short-lived national political party, the Sunrise Party (taiyo no to).^[2]

Adaptations

Adaptations of the novel include:

• Season of the Sun (1956 film)
• Taiyō no Kiseki: Kiken na Seishun, a 1986 animated film
• Taiyō no Kisetsu, a 2002 film
• Shouji Ch**ko Man no Kisetsu, a 2011 eroge

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