君に読む物語 (The Notebook) 

The Japanese poster for さみに読む物語 (Kimi ni Yomu Monogatari), released on February 5, 2005, reinterprets the American key art of The Notebook (2004) into a warm and sentimental tableau designed for Japanese audiences who favored melodramatic love stories in the early 2000s. Directed by Nick Cassavetes and distributed in Japan by GAGA Humax, the film starred Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, and Gena Rowlands. The poster’s orange-gold gradient evokes sunset and nostalgia, symbolizing both warmth and impermanence, while the rounded Minchō typography with soft brush modulation expresses emotional sincerity and gentle refinement. The overlay of handwritten letters across the composition visually connects to the film’s central motif—love as a preserved memory. Released amid Japan’s fascination with Western romantic dramas for adult women, the campaign echoed the “pure love” boom of the early Heisei era. By emphasizing poetic imagery, rainfall, and handwritten motifs, it paralleled the tone of domestic works like Sekai no Chūshin de, Ai o Sakebu (2004), blending Hollywood romance with Japanese emotional sensibility.