Japan's top-grossing movie of 1995, this offbeat not-exactly-romance involves two women bound together by their separate relationships with the same man. The film, which played festivals as
Love Letter, opens in Kobe at a memorial
service for Itsuki Fujii, who died two years earlier in a mountain-climbing accident. Itsuki's still-grieving fiancee Hiroko (Miho Nakayama) comes across his high-school yearbook and, acting on a disconsolate whim, sends a letter to Itsuki's old address in Otaru, a "letter to heaven" she knows
will never be delivered. But to Hiroko's surprise and consternation, the letter is not only delivered but answered: There's another Itsuki F...
Released:
1995
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
116 mins