Love Letter

Koibumi, feature film, 1985.

DIRECTED BY: Tatsumi Kumashiro

Love Letter

CAST:
Ken'ichi Hagiwara (Shoichi Takehara),
Mitsuko Baishô (Kyoko Takehara),
Keiko Takahashi (Etsuko Tajima),
Kaoru Kobayashi (Tetsushi Kamiya)

SCRIPT:
Tatsumi Kumashiro,
Jun Takada (prema romanu Mikihiko Renjo)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Yoshihiro Yamazaki

Synopsis:
A successful married poet decides to find a mistress. So he picks Kyoko, a young woman still in school. He sets her up in an apartment and visits her only occasionally, while also having a relationship with his divorced neighbor. After she accidentally gets pregnant, her lover insists on an abortion. After his death she comes to his funeral but is not welcome there either.

35 mm, color, 108 min