Love Letter (1998)

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This movie draws the main character's mind delicately.The flashback of the love between Hiroko and his fiancé Itsuki is very beautiful.The choice of sound track is also great. The story is of course interesting. The exchanging letters between Hiroko and her Fiancé Itsuki's classmate Itsuki she has exactly same name with her fiancé is interesting.This movie draws Hiroko's jealousy well.This movie tells me that how good the letter is. Now we almost use e-mail, we hardly write letters.When I watched this movie, I wanted to write a letter.This movie is really delicate, beautiful and great love story I think.I want to see this movie again someday.

This is one of the best movies that I've ever seen!! In the beginning the story moves a bit slowly and the two characters that Nakayama plays confused me a bit, but it really started to pick up my interest when the "high school days" part started. From there begins an emotional ride of reminiscence and camaraderie. It was truly beautiful...When the most famous scene of the movie played (we all know what that one is ^^), I was in tears!! The ending, the climax, was also tear-jerking in a much more subtle way. Maybe I just love crying during dramatic movies... But if you're like me in that way, then you will LOVE this movie.-Note: It's not available in the US; I picked it up in Thailand on VCD. The weird thing is that I only chose the title because of the cover, and it turned out to be one of my favorite movies!!-

No doubt, it's my permanent favorite love story. Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé died in a climb accident, she misses him so much, one day after her fiancé's(Itsuki Fujii) funeral, she had an idea to send a letter to his hometown and the address is already inexistent. She calls the letter to heaven. Unexpectedly, she get reply. Of course, she feels so weird and decides to visit the town. Finally, she finds the girl who sent the letter. She shocked when she see the girl since they have definitely same look and the love story is portrayed from here. Her fiancé has the same name of the girl, Itsuki Fujii. He loved the girl so deep, but he never reveal his mind, he hided his love in mind. He would be Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé just because they have same look. In the end, female Itsuki Fujii understand his love, she receives a book-borrow card and see her drawing painted by male Itsuki Fujii. But everything's gone. I heard of a number of girls ask their boyfriends do you really love me or just love somebody else looks like me when they leave cinema. It's surely a joke. The movie tells a very tragic story, but still beautiful. I saw the aesthetic sensibility just belongs to oriental. The story moves not very fast, but I can taste an implicit feeling, no sexuality no action scene no drugs even no kiss. Do you believe a Hollywoodized love story could be without all these elements, my answer is absolutely impossible. Love could be simple but not means kinda boring if only it's genuine. It brought tears first time when I watching a film. Thanks for the director Shunji Iwai, he brought an unique oriental style to the world. I also wanna look his APRIL STORY， I assure that's another excellent movie. 10 out of 10.

Iwai Shunji's first film to receive high critical acclaim, _Love Letter_ is a gorgeous movie starring the lovely Nakayama Miho in two roles that of Watanabe Hiroko,a young woman who loss her fiancé in a mountaineering accident and Fujii Itsuki a librarian fighting a truly nasty cold.After going to memorial service to honor her dead fiancé, Hiroko travels with her would have been mother-in-law to her house. There she looks in her deceased fiancé's junior high school year book and discovers that he was from Otaru, a town in Hokkaido, and she copies down his address that was listed in the reference in the back of the book.For sentimental reasons sends a letter to her dead fiancé's, Fujii Itsuki's, old home. What's this? Didn't I write earlier that Fujii Itsuki was a woman? Well, she is. There were two students named "Fujii Itsuki" at the junior high school. After a dumbfounded Itsuki receives the letter, she responds to it. Hiroko, obviously not expecting to receive a letter, is happy to receive one, and, in the cloud of her fiancé's memory, believes that it might actually be from him.Her new romantic interest Akiba, Toyokawa Etsushi, although he too mourns the loss of his friend, he was on the same moutaineering trip, he wants Hiroko to release the memory of her dead fiancé and accept him as her only romantic interest.After Akiba and Hiroko learn that this Itsuki is a female, they travel to Otaru and search for her. Although Hiroko and Itsuki do encounter each other, they do not converse, but soon after Hiroko returns home, she and Itsuki begin a long term exchange of letters in which Itsuki dictates all of her memories of the male Fujii Itsuki.This a very moving film that shows off the beauty of northern Japan quite well. The snow covered landscapes are absolutely breathtaking. This movie is quite melancholy, not only because of the grief Hiroko experiences because she loss her fiancé, but also because of some of the revelations she makes after corresponding with the female Itsuki for so long. Itsuki's story is quite sad also because she learns things of the past that were not clear to her at the time she was a junior high school student.However, that does not mean that this film is without humor. Nakayama Miho does a wonderful job acting the part of the bubbly Itsuki whose attitude towards people and surroundings is a breath of fresh air in comparison to Watanabe Hiroko. A great film.