Love Letter (1953)
恋文
Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.
- Date of release
- 1953-12-13
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (40)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Director
- Kinuyo Tanaka
Casting
- Masayuki Mori — Reikichi Mayumi
- Yoshiko Kuga — Michiko Kubota
- Shizue Natsukawa — Reikichi's mother
- Jūkichi Uno — Naoto Yamaji
- Chieko Seki — Office lady
- Kyōko Anzai
- Jûzô Dôsan — Hiroshi
- Yumi Takano
- Kikuko Hanaoka
- Harumi Kashima
- Ichiro Kodama
- Tatsuhiro Oka
Interesting facts
Love Letter is a 1953 Japanese drama film and the first film directed by actress Kinuyo Tanaka. With her directing debut, Tanaka became the second female film director in Japan after Tazuko Sakane. The screenplay by Keisuke Kinoshita is based on a novel by Fumio Niwa.
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