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Directed by revered Japanese actress and Mizoguchi collaborator Kinuyo Tanaka, this is the story of the wounds of war, the limits of love, and the need for forgiveness.
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. As adapted from a novel by Fumio Niwa, Love Letter depicts with incisive complexity the fraught adaptation of Japanese soldiers to a changed society as well as the moral condemnation of Japanese women who became involved with the enemy. [97 mins; drama, romance; Japanese with English subtitles]
"A technically astute, wonderfully adult examination of the impossible predicaments women find themselves in." – Nicholas Bell, ION Cinema
This screening is generously supported by the Women's Philanthropy Leadership Council.
