Directed by Shunji Iwai
Screenplay by Shunji Iwai
Starring: Miho Nakayama/Yuji Toyokawa/Miki Sakai/Takashi Kashihara/Benaku/More…
Genre: Drama/Love
Production country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 1999-03(China Mainland) / 2021-05-20(China Mainland Re-release) / 1995-03-25(Japan)
Running time: 117 minutes
Aka: When I Close My Eyes/Letters of Love
Synopsis of Love letter
On a snowy winter’s day in Kobe, Japan, Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) was once again overwhelmed by grief on the second anniversary of the death of her former fiance, Fujiki. Because she could not restrain the yearning for her deceased lover, Hiroko Watanabe found the address of Fujiki when he studied in Otaru City in the Middle school yearbook, and sent a love letter that she thought was sent to heaven.
Do not want to soon Watanabe Hiroko unexpectedly received a letter signed as “Fujiki (Sakai Miki)”, after further understanding, she knew that Fujiki is a girl of similar age with her, and her boyfriend Fujiki (Takashi Kaibara) childhood classmates. In order to know more about the situation of some former lovers in middle school, Watanabe Hiroko began to exchange letters with female Fujing Tree. And the vine tree in the continuous memories, gradually found that the vine tree of the same name with her childhood had hidden a cavity of tenderness.