Love Letter
Released a year after the American occupation of Japan ended, Kinuyo Tanaka’s directorial debut explores the professional and personal conflicts of Reikichi (Masayuki Mori), a repatriated veteran who searches for his lost love (Yoshiko Kuga) while translating romantic letters from Japanese women to American GIs. Adapted from a novel by Fumio Niwa, Love Letter depicts with incisive complexity Japanese soldiers struggling to adapt to a changed society, as well as the moral condemnation of Japanese women who became involved with the enemy.
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Cast
- Masayuki Mori
- Reikichi Mayumi
- Yoshiko Kuga
- Michiko Kubota
- Juzo Dosan
- Hiroshi
- Jukichi Uno
- Naoto Yamaji
- Chieko Seki
- Office lady
- Shizue Natsukawa
- Reikichi’s mother
Credits
- Director
- Kinuyo Tanaka
- Screenplay
- Keisuke Kinoshita
- Based on a novel by
- Fumio Niwa
- Director of photography
- Hiroshi Suzuki
- Editor
- Toshio Goto
- Composer
- Ichiro Saito
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