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Love Letter (1995)

Director: Shunji Iwai

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From Time Out Film Guide

Japan's Fuji Television produced this glossy exercise in adolescent longing, and it looks it. A vehicle for pop idol Miho Nakayama to sigh and offer melancholy looks aplenty, it gives her a double role as Hiroko, the prim, grief-stricken young woman who sends a letter to her dead boyfriend's old address, and Itsuki, the rather feistier type who (happening to share a name with the chap in question) gets this unexpected missive, and whose initially tentative response is to send both girls on a voyage of discovery.

Author: TJ 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Shunji Iwai

Producer: Suji Abe

Cast: Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han, Katsuyuki Shinohara, Miki Sakai full cast

Duration: 117 mins


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