Love Letter 1953 This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who also has a small role in the story Based on a screenplay by Keinosuke Kinoshita, Koibumi explore the wounds of war, the limits of love and the need to forgive A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi Masayuki Mori, finds a new job five years after the end of WWII He will write love letters for other people, which was not uncommon in post war times remember the starving poet Lope Veiga Fernando Rey in Spanish masterpiece Cielo negro His ideas about love and his personal principles will be tested when he reconnects with his former girlfriend, Michiko Yoshigo Kuga, a woman with a dark past marked by war and the further occupation of her country by the US military forces