Love Letter (1953 film)

Love Letter
Love Letter
	Yoshiko Kuga and Masayuki Mori
Directed by	Kinuyo Tanaka
Written by	Keisuke Kinoshita; Fumio Niwa (novel);
Produced by	Ichirō Nagashima
Starring	Masayuki Mori; Yoshiko Kuga;
Cinematography	Hiroshi Suzuki
Music by	Ichirō Saitō
Production; company	Shintoho
Distributed by	Shintoho
Release date	13 December 1953 (Japan);
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Love Letter (恋文, Koibumi) is a 1953 Japanese drama film and the first film directed by actress Kinuyo Tanaka.^[2]^[3] With her directing debut, Tanaka became the second female film director in Japan after Tazuko Sakane.^[3] The screenplay by Keisuke Kinoshita is based on a novel by Fumio Niwa.^[2]

^ "恋文". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "恋文(1953)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 August 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Kinuyo Tanaka—Actress, Director, Pioneer". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

[1] "恋文". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 10 May 2020.

[Kinenote-2] "恋文(1953)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 August 2023.

[Harvard-3] "Kinuyo Tanaka—Actress, Director, Pioneer". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

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