Does anybody remember this
movie...?
Director Shunji Iwai achieved massive commercial success with Love
Letter, an achingly sentimental and poetic film about love both
lost and found.
TV drama queen Miho Nakayama stars as Hiroko Watanabe, a young
woman who has not yet recovered from the loss of her fiance Itsuki
Fujii two years earlier. While visiting Itsuki's mother, she
discovers his old yearbook, and finding out that the school has
been demolished, she writes a short, simple letter to Itsuki and
sends it to the school's former address. She doesn't intend for the
letter to reach anyone, and instead hopes that the act of writing
it will help ease her own pain.
But surprisingly, she gets a response! The recipient is another
person named Itsuki Fujii, a female who actually went to the same
school as Hiroko's fiance.
The two women continue to correspond, and the memories they share
with one another bring Hiroko ever closer to finding closure. But
will she ever recover enough to meet this other Itsuki Fujii?
Co-starring popular Japanese actor Etsushi Toyokawa, Love Letter is
a heartfelt and utterly affecting motion picture that fully
demonstrates Shunji Iwai's masterful ability to bring intimate
human emotions to the screen. Set against the picturesque backdrop
of rural Hokkaido, Love Letter is a stunningly beautiful and even
magical motion picture.
