Letters from the mountains

Tokyo housewife and small-town native banker swap skyscrapers for rice paddies and find every silence louder than the last. An autumnal return home widens a generational rift they didn’t know they carried. Koizumi’s subtle camera lets Michiko’s unsent letters do the shouting.

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Takashi Koizumi directed Letters from the mountains in 2002. See Takashi Koizumi's full filmography, where to start with Takashi Koizumi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Takashi Koizumi.

Letters from the mountains was released in 2002 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 128 minutes.