Haru

Here's a film about the good old days of proto-social media. A salaryman starts an anonymous email relationship with a woman he meets in an online movie forum. It's a gentle reminder of the internet's potential for connection before everything went haywire.

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Yoshimitsu Morita directed Haru in 1996. See Yoshimitsu Morita's full filmography, where to start with Yoshimitsu Morita, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yoshimitsu Morita.

Haru was released in 1996 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 118 minutes.