Oct 05, 2002
128 min
Full-HD

Letter from the Mountain (2002)

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Asmik Ace Entertainment

Akira Terao

Takao Ueda

Kanako Higuchi

Michiko Ueda

Hisashi Igawa

Sayuri's father

Tanie Kitabayashi

Oume

Manami Konishi

Sayuri

Yoko Shioya

Tanabe

Takahiro Tamura

Shigenaga Koda

Hidetaka Yoshioka

Dr. Nakamura

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