# Letter from the Mountain (2002)

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**Original title**: *阿弥陀堂だより*
**Runtime**: 128 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Takashi Koizumi
**Written by**: Takashi Koizumi
**Starring**: Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi, Hisashi Igawa, Tanie Kitabayashi, Manami Konishi, Yoko Shioya

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, slow-burn, tender

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