Nirai kanai kara no tegami   2005   Japan Letters from Kanai Nirai
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Director:Naoto Kumazawa
Studio:IMJ Entertainment
Writer:Naoto Kumazawa
IMDb Rating:6.4 (27 votes)
Genre:Drama
Duration:113 min
Languages:Japanese
IMDb:0471282
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Naoto Kumazawa  ...  (Director)
Naoto Kumazawa  ...  (Writer)
 
Yû Aoi  ...  Fuki Asato
Manami Higa  ...  Misaki Taira
Yûta Kanai  ...  Nadashi Uchimori
Hitomi Kawai  ...  Reyna
Gin Maeda  ...  Tanaka
Kaho Minami  ...  Masami Asato
Ayumu Saitô  ...  Sakiyama
Susumu Taira  ...  Shoei Asato
Haseo Nakanishi  ...  Composer
Masayuki Fujii  ...  Cinematographer
Takao Yamanaka  ...  Editor
Comments: That I waited a decade for English subs to emerge for this created unrealistic expectations. It's nice to see Yû Aoi in her pre-anorexic days owning a film, but beyond that this is LifeTime Channel dreck with an excruciatingly boring reading of the letters at the end.

Summary: Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a cameraman. In her childhood, her mother Masami left Fuki to live in Tokyo. Although Masami has not come back, Fuki receives birthday cards from Masami every year on her birthday. On Fuki's fourteenth birthday, Masami promises to confess everything when Fuki becomes 20 years old. After her graduation from high school, Fuki moves to Tokyo to work as a cameraman assistant. Fuki starts off her hectic life in Tokyo, and soon, her nineteenth birthday comes. As usual, she receives a birthday card from Masami. A year later...


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