天空的冒險

by Shūichi Yoshida, 吉田修一, 王華懋 (Translator)

喜愛旅行、喜愛電影的吉田修一，「經常去旅行的地方看電影」，他在曼谷看電影，沒想到預告片一結束，觀眾紛紛站起來，怎麼回事啊？他在不丹看電影，完全聽不懂台詞，卻跟著非常入戲的當地觀眾一樣淚水盈眶；他在巴黎看電影，只見一男一女吵得不可開交，出動工作人員來勸架；他在台北看電影，淚水不住地往下流，過了一年，一樣的片子也在日本上映，他又跑去看了，只想知道當初讓他哭成那樣的電影究竟是在說些什麼。

每一段旅行，對旅人而言都是一趟「天空的冒險」，吉田修一為天空的旅人獻上一篇又一篇框在電影片名下的短篇小說，讓旅人同時享受「旅行＋電影」的幽微結合，如果你曾經看過這部電影，或許能從中比較兩者的同與不同，回憶似曾相識的電影場景。

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2013

About the author

Shūichi Yoshida (吉田 修一) was born in Nagasaki, and studied Business Administration at Hosei University. He won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers in 1997 for his story "Saigo no Musuko", and the Akutagawa Prize in 2002 (the fifth time he'd been nominated for the prize) for "Park Life". In 2002 he also won the Yamamoto Prize for Parade, and for winning both literary and popular prizes Yoshida was seen as a crossover writer, like Amy Yamada or Masahiko Shimada. In 2003 he wrote lyrics for the song "Great Escape" on Tomoyasu Hotei's album Doberman. His 2007 novel Villain won the Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, and was recently adapted into an award-winning 2010 film by Lee Sang-il.