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Film Screening “Love Letter”
Screening of the 1995 Japanese box-office hit “Love Letter”by Shunji Iwai.
Love Letter is a 1995 Japanese film directed by Shunji Iwai and starring Miho Nakayama. The film was shot almost entirely on the island of Hokkaidō, mainly in the city of Otaru.
Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she receives a reply, not from the dead Itsuki, but from a woman with the same name whom had known Hiroko's fiancé in school. A relationship develops between the two women as they continue to exchange letters and share memories of the dead Itsuki.
Love Letter became a box-office hit in Japan and later in other east Asian countries, most notably South Korea, where it was one of the first Japanese films to be shown in cinemas since World War II. In South Korea it was the tenth highest grossing general release of the year with 645,615 admissions.
This movie was released in the United States theatrically under the new title ‘When I Close My Eyes’.
Love Letter will be screened on Fri 17 Feb 2017, 7.30 pm at TPD, 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi.
Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she receives a reply, not from the dead Itsuki, but from a woman with the same name whom had known Hiroko's fiancé in school. A relationship develops between the two women as they continue to exchange letters and share memories of the dead Itsuki.
This movie was released in the United States theatrically under the new title ‘When I Close My Eyes’.
Love Letter will be screened on Fri 17 Feb 2017, 7.30 pm at TPD, 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi.
