Love Letter
Type: Japanese Movie
Cast:
Nakayama Miho as Fujii Itsuki and Watanabe Hiroko
Toyokawa Etsushi as Akiba Shigeru
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My Review:
This is a simple movie and for that I really liked it. I also found it very interesting that Nakayama Miho played both of the lead roles. The story it that Watanabe Hiroko had a fiance and he died. She is having a hard time getting over it so she decides to write a letter to him. She finds his old address in a yearbook and sends the letter there. Then she gets a huge surprise when she gets an answer.
The letter she gets in return is from Fujii Itsuki who is alive and happens to share the same name as her dead fiance. As time passes by they write back and forth and start to figure out the confusion. Hiroko finally decides that she must go and meet Itsuki but things don’t go as well as planned as she is very ill. I can’t say much more with out ruining the ending.
There are a few flash backs to their school days and some very interesting plot twists. In the end Hiroko’s dead fiance’s best friend takes her to the place where her fiance died. There she shouts to him hoping he can hear her and she tries to say her last goodbye’s to let him go. It is a very touching moment and make sure you have your tissues ready.
I love this movie and I love Nakayama Miho and Toyokawa Etsushi. They are both excellent in their performance and they work very well together. As always the vistas are outstanding and play well to the emotions at hand. If you had a high school crush this movie will come a little close to home for you if your love for that person was somewhat unrequited. I would really recommend this movie to anyone who loves a chick flick.
Tags: Japanese Movie, Love Letter, Nakayama Miho, Toyokawa Etsushi
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