Gone With the Wind is a 1939 historical romance film based on the 1936 novel of the same name by author Margaret Mitchell, focused on a plantation in the American state of Georgia before, during, and after the American Civil War.
Aside from it's success domestically and in other international audiences, the film was a smash hit upon its 1952 release in Japan largely due to its focus in the latter half on picking up one's lives after war has claimed everything else. Main character Scarlett O'Hara's closing line, "Tomorrow is another day", resonated particularly to a nation that was itself still picking up the pieces after a destructive war. Gone With the Wind thus had an outsized effect on Japanese culture of the early to mid 1950s, and art from this time (or mimicking this time) in Japan will often contain references to the movie.
