WWII veteran Reikichi ghostwrites letters for Japanese prostitutes to send to their American GI boyfriends. One of those women happens to be Michiko, Reikichi’s lifelong flame – and, as a staunch nationalist and traumatized veteran, he doesn’t approve of her consorting with Japan’s former enemy. Can he suppress his loyalist purism long enough to recognize the humanity of the person he claims to love?

THE PRECISE COMPOSITIONS OF KINUYO TANAKA (Sept 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-precise-compositions-of-kinuyo-tanaka/

CRACKING OPEN THE DISNEY VAULT (Sept at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/cracking-open-the-disney-vault/

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Ichirô Saitô from LOVE LETTER.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 192: LOVE LETTER (1953)

5:05 - Who will atone?

17:08 - ​​This movie in context of postwar Japan

27:45 - Individual culpability for national sins

37:24 - The ending

50:26 - The Junk Drawer

57:33 - Cody’s Noteys: First Film Fever