Japan Synopsis
ラストレター
It is only at their sister's and mother's funeral when a woman meets her niece after many years. The niece is now a grown girl. The sister takes on the task of informing the deceased's friends of the death while the daughter cannot bring herself to symbolically accept the demise of her mother. In the midst of all this an old flame messages the sister to say he is still in love with her, but is he messaging the living sister or the dead one?
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Catalog density by release year in the 2020s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Last Letter premiered. 539 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,411 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (47th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Romance productions specifically: #194 of 406 (top 48%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | TOHO |
| Runtime | 2h 0m |
| Release Date | January 17, 2020 |
| IMDb | tt8809750 |
| Official Site | last-letter-movie.jp |