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The Three Undelivered Letters

1979 · 130 min

A slow, quietly ominous family drama where politeness hides menace and every conversation feels like a warning.

Tagline
Are the letters a notice of approaching death?
Overview
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • deception
  • identity
  • isolation
  • death
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour2
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, mystery
Directed by
Yoshitarō Nomura
Written by
Kaneto Shindō
Starring
Komaki Kurihara, Takao Kataoka, Ai Kanzaki, Ryo Hikime, Keiko Matsuzaka, Mayumi Ogawa, Keiko Takeshita, Tsunehiko Watase
Music
Yasushi Akutagawa
Cinematography
Takashi Kawamata
Runtime
130 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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