Love Letter (1995)

• MooKu

  13 Sep 07, 18:40

  Does anybody remember this movie...?
  
  
  
  Director Shunji Iwai achieved massive commercial success with Love Letter, an achingly sentimental and poetic film about love both lost and found.
  
  TV drama queen Miho Nakayama stars as Hiroko Watanabe, a young woman who has not yet recovered from the loss of her fiance Itsuki Fujii two years earlier. While visiting Itsuki's mother, she discovers his old yearbook, and finding out that the school has been demolished, she writes a short, simple letter to Itsuki and sends it to the school's former address. She doesn't intend for the letter to reach anyone, and instead hopes that the act of writing it will help ease her own pain.
  
  But surprisingly, she gets a response! The recipient is another person named Itsuki Fujii, a female who actually went to the same school as Hiroko's fiance.
  
  The two women continue to correspond, and the memories they share with one another bring Hiroko ever closer to finding closure. But will she ever recover enough to meet this other Itsuki Fujii?
  
  Co-starring popular Japanese actor Etsushi Toyokawa, Love Letter is a heartfelt and utterly affecting motion picture that fully demonstrates Shunji Iwai's masterful ability to bring intimate human emotions to the screen. Set against the picturesque backdrop of rural Hokkaido, Love Letter is a stunningly beautiful and even magical motion picture.
• M©+square

  13 Sep 07, 21:53

  I like it alot. Still have the vcd with me.
  
  The ending really left me emotional.
• MooKu

  13 Sep 07, 21:55

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  I like it alot. Still have the vcd with me.
  
  The ending really left me emotional.

  Wow...
  
  I wanna watch it again ley...
  
  I watched it when I was in primary school and couldn't catch some bits, but I found it a very beautiful and moving story still...
  
  I remember very vividly Hiroko standing in the snow in the morning, yelling:
  
  "O GENKI DESUKA!?!?!?!?!?! GENKI DESUUUUUUU~!!!!!!!!"
  
  
• M©+square

  13 Sep 07, 22:07

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  Wow...
  
  I wanna watch it again ley...
  
  I watched it when I was in primary school and couldn't catch some bits, but I found it a very beautiful and moving story still...
  
  I remember very vividly Hiroko standing in the snow in the morning, yelling:
  
  "O GENKI DESUKA!?!?!?!?!?! GENKI DESUUUUUUU~!!!!!!!!"
  
  

  I'll convert to .mp4 and upload to you. Gimmie your email addy.
• MooKu

  13 Sep 07, 22:08

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  I'll convert to .mp4 and upload to you. Gimmie your email addy.

  
  
  omg really???
  
  is it troublesome?? i mean, i could *ahem* it u know...
• browniebaobao

  13 Sep 07, 22:10

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  I like it alot. Still have the vcd with me.
  
  The ending really left me emotional.

  wahh!!! i tot u MIA leh.
  
  where can get this vcd huh?
  
  duno able to rent or not...
• MooKu

  13 Sep 07, 22:13

  umm nono wait wait... i might wanna buy the DVD for keeps...
• M©+square

  13 Sep 07, 22:22

  kuku - I search thru my collection. I think i've misplaced it.
  
  bbb - still can find it in VCD/DVD rental stores.
• MooKu

  13 Sep 07, 22:24

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  kuku - I search thru my collection. I think i've misplaced it.
  
  bbb - still can find it in VCD/DVD rental stores.

  its ok its ok!
  
  if i see it while out shopping... i think i'll buy it, cos umm... this is something worth keeping
• M©+square

  13 Sep 07, 22:29

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  its ok its ok!
  
  if i see it while out shopping... i think i'll buy it, cos umm... this is something worth keeping

  Orh, that's if you really like DVD. If not, i'll suggest that you buy VCD. Because this 1995 film doesn't have good visual quality. Doesn't jquite justify to pay the DVD price for it's quality.
• MooKu

  13 Sep 07, 22:30

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  Orh, that's if you really like DVD. If not, i'll suggest that you buy VCD. Because this 1995 film doesn't have good visual quality. Doesn't jquite justify to pay the DVD price for it's quality.

  Hm.
  
  Ok... thanks for the tip.
• browniebaobao

  13 Sep 07, 22:51

  Originally posted by M©+square:

  kuku - I search thru my collection. I think i've misplaced it.
  
  bbb - still can find it in VCD/DVD rental stores.

  then can find it in VCD stores?
  
  i'll look for it.
• daface

  15 Sep 07, 09:01

  the DVD is available at the shops, collector's edition some more, comes with 4 frames of the film strip, and 10 photo post cards
  
  best of all, S$12.90 only
  
  just bought and reviewed it
  http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com/2007/09/dvd-collectors-edition-love-letter-1995.html
• MooKu

  15 Sep 07, 15:33

  Originally posted by daface:

  the DVD is available at the shops, collector's edition some more, comes with 4 frames of the film strip, and 10 photo post cards
  
  best of all, S$12.90 only
  
  just bought and reviewed it
  http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com/2007/09/dvd-collectors-edition-love-letter-1995.html

  Is that the Hong Kong version?
  
  But I want the Japanese version... that one costs $70 on yesasia.com.
  
  Where did you buy the DVD?
• hisoka

  15 Sep 07, 15:41

  get from mc2 burn onto dvd/vcd.
  
  ta da no can keep and watch. and no need to buy
• M©+square

  16 Sep 07, 22:30

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  Is that the Hong Kong version?
  
  But I want the Japanese version... that one costs $70 on yesasia.com.
  
  Where did you buy the DVD?

  kuku, It's Japanese version by director Shunji Iwai.
  
  Thanks Daface for the review, 12 years late though.