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Love Letter from Heaven (2007)

Love Letter from Heaven poster
Original title
天国からのラブレター
Directed by
Madoka Yamaguchi
Genre
drama, romance
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 19m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film is based on a book compiling the letters between a man and his late wife, who was murdered. It presents their correspondence as a way of telling their story.

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What happens

『天国からのラブレター』は、光市母子殺害事件の遺族である本村洋が出版した本。手記という形ではなく、事件で殺害された妻との往復書簡をまとめたものであり、 著者も妻・本村弥生との共著ということになっている。 新潮社から2000年に出版され、2007年には文庫化された。2007年に山口円監督により映画化された。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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