Actress Tanaka Kinuyo’s directorial debut. Mayumi, a well-educated ex-naval officer, spends his time between translation work and searching postwar Tokyo streets for his love Michiko, who was forced to marry another man while Mayumi was at sea. He finds work writing love letters for the Japanese mistresses of American servicemen, and unexpectedly meets Michiko, now a mistress of an American soldier herself.

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Distribution: Shin Toho, Print courtesy of The Japan Foundation


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LOVE LETTER
1953, Japan, 96 min, B&W, 16mm, PG
Directed by TANAKA Kinuyo