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Last Letter

2020 · 120 min

A gentle, melancholic exploration of grief and love, unfolding through letters and memories with a quiet emotional pull.

Overview
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • love
  • identity
  • memory
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
romance, drama
Directed by
Shunji Iwai
Written by
Shunji Iwai
Starring
Takako Matsu, Masaharu Fukuyama, Suzu Hirose, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nana Mori, Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Hideaki Anno
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
120 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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