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Overall Rank: 17985
Average Rating: 2.7/4
# of Ratings: 3
Theatrical Release Date: 07/10/1998
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Shunji Iwai
Actors: Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han, Katsuyuki Shinohara, Miki Sakai, Takashi Kashiwabara
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industrialist - wrote on 07/04/2011
Shunji Iwai gained considerable acclaim with his first full-length feature, establishing himself as an erudite of post-structuralist film semiotics and a contemporary auteur of considerable note. 'Love Letter' unfurls like a pragmatic illusion, dreamlike in texture and composition, yet grounded with modal realism, presenting interpretive undertones concurrent with formalist integrity and ethnographic realism that grants it a dichotomy somewhat rare within the romance genre.
A woman in mourning over her fiancé’s tragic demise sends a letter to his childhood address to reflexively cope with her grief. To her surprise, she receives a reply, thus igniting a renewed connection to her lost love and a strange new association with a woman from his past who knew him as intimately as she …
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