Credited cast: | |||
Miho Nakayama | ... | Itsuki Fujii / Hiroko Watanabe | |
Etsushi Toyokawa | ... | Akiba Shigeru | |
Bunjaku Han | ... | Female itsuki's mother | |
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Katsuyuki Shinohara | ... | Female itsuki's grandfather |
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Miki Sakai | ... | Itsuki Fujii as a young girl |
Takashi Kashiwabara | ... | Male itsuki fujii | |
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Ken Mitsuishi | ... | Abekasu |
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Emiko Nagata | ... | Harumi |
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Kaori Oguri | ... | Suzumi |
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Naoki Gotô | ... | Ootomo |
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Toshiya Sakai | ... | Driver |
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Keiichi Suzuki | ... | Male itsuki's father |
Tomorô Taguchi | ... | Female itsuki's father | |
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Hiroshi Kanbe | ... | Haruo |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Mariko Kaga | ... | Male itsuki's mother |
Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she receives a reply, not from the dead Itsuki, but from a woman with the same name whom had known Hiroko's fiancé in school. A relationship develops between the two women as they continue to exchange letters and share memories of the dead Itsuki. Written by Todd K. Bowman <tkbowman@aol.com>
Love Letter: 9/10
The first 30+ minutes of "Love Letter" were quite boring, but if you ever watched the movie again, knowing how the plot unfolds, they'd be anything but boring. The premise of this is cool and a little creepy: a woman, enstranged by her husband's untimely death, sends a letter to his old address. She knows that the house was knocked down and built over by a highway years ago, but does it anyway, perhaps out of desperation. Unexpectedly, she gets a reply. From there, the story begins, and it takes a much different direction than how the plot sounds on paper. I can't really say too much without spoiling it, but this is a tragic movie, yet beautiful at the same time. There are flashback sequences that make you really care about several characters in the movie, including the deceased man (who is shown as a school boy in the flashbacks). This is so well set out, and almost brought me to tears at times. Movies like this are what make me want to see more and more Asian cinema, because this was an absolute epic.