TUE AUG 2, 2022 7:00 PM LOVE LETTER $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | New 4K restoration, courtesy of Janus Films. ‘Tanaka Tuesdays: The Films of Kinuyo Tanaka’ Series Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILM: Released a year after the American occupation of Japan ended, Tanaka’s directorial debut explores the professional and personal conflicts of Reikichi (Masayuki Mori), a repatriated veteran who searches for his lost love (Yoshiko Kuga) while translating romantic letters from Japanese women to American GIs. As adapted from a novel by Fumio Niwa, LOVER LETTER depicts with incisive complexity the fraught adaptation of Japanese soldiers to a changed society as well as the moral condemnation of Japanese women who entered into relations with the enemy. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films