---
title: 'Love Letter (1953)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kinuyo Tanaka'
released: '1953-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 98
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/love-letter-1953'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407929/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Love Letter (1953)

1953 · 98 min · Drama · Japan

Original title: 恋文

## Synopsis

Love Letter  is a 1953 Japanese drama film and the first film directed by actress Kinuyo Tanaka. With her directing debut, Tanaka became the second female film director in Japan after Tazuko Sakane. The screenplay by Keisuke Kinoshita is based on a novel by Fumio Niwa.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Kinuyo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinuyo-tanaka)
- **Screenplay:** [Keisuke Kinoshita](https://cinepixo.com/people/keisuke-kinoshita)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ichirō Saitō](https://cinepixo.com/people/ichiro-saito)
- **Director of Photography:** [Hiroshi Suzuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/hiroshi-suzuki)
- **Editor:** [Toshio Gotō](https://cinepixo.com/people/toshio-goto)

## Cast

- [Shizue Natsukawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/shizue-natsukawa)
- [Masayuki Mori](https://cinepixo.com/people/masayuki-mori)
- [Yoshiko Kuga](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshiko-kuga)
- [Ranko Hanai](https://cinepixo.com/people/ranko-hanai)
- [Kinuyo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinuyo-tanaka)
- [Jūkichi Uno](https://cinepixo.com/people/jukichi-uno)
- [Kyōko Kagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kyoko-kagawa)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/love-letter-1953
Film facts: Wikidata (Q6690927); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.