It has been announced that a 4K remastered version commemorating the 30th anniversary of the release of the 1995 film "Love Letter," starring actress and singer Miho Nakayama, who passed away last December, will be released in theaters nationwide, including TOHO Cinemas Hibiya (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo), on April 4th.
The film is director Shunji Iwai's feature film debut, and is a pure love story starring Nakayama and Etsushi Toyokawa.
Watanabe Hiroko (Nakayama), who lost her fiancé Fujii Itsuki (Toyokawa) in a mountain accident, mails a letter that should never reach Otaru, the heaven where Itsuki used to live. The letter ends up being delivered to a woman who shares the same name as Itsuki and was a classmate in middle school, and the two loves that had been buried come to light. Nakayama takes on the difficult dual roles of Watanabe Hiroko and Fujii Itsuki, who receives the letter. Miki Sakai, Takashi Kashiwabara and others also appear in the film.
