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Love Letter

Original title: 恋文

  • Movie
  • 1953
  • 1h 38m

Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka

7.2

TMDB audience rating
7.2 out of 10 from 41 votes

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Overview

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.

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Cast and crew

  • Masayuki Mori

    Masayuki MoriReikichi Mayumi

  • Yoshiko Kuga

    Yoshiko KugaMichiko Kubota

  • Shizue Natsukawa

    Shizue NatsukawaReikichi's mother

  • Jūkichi Uno

    Jūkichi UnoNaoto Yamaji

  • Chieko Seki

    Chieko SekiOffice lady

  • Kyōko Anzai

    Kyōko Anzai

  • Jûzô DôsanHiroshi

  • Yumi Takano

  • Kikuko Hanaoka

    Kikuko Hanaoka

  • Harumi Kashima

  • Ichiro Kodama

  • Tatsuhiro Oka

  • Shigeru Ogura

    Shigeru OguraHiroshi

  • Toshikazu Hara

  • Sayoko Ono

  • Chiyoko Kuni

  • Akiko Jindai

  • Naoko Kubo

    Naoko Kubo

Director
Kinuyo Tanaka
Writer
Keisuke Kinoshita
Music
Ichirō Saitō
Cinematography
Hiroshi Suzuki