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The Three Undelivered Letters

1979·130 min

The Three Undelivered Letters

Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura

DramaMystery

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.

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Komaki Kurihara

Noriko

Toshiyuki

Keiko

Bob

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Takashi Kawamata

Director of Photography

Yasushi Akutagawa

Original Music Composer

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The Three Undelivered Letters (1979) is about a young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.

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Yoshitarō Nomura directed The Three Undelivered Letters (1979).

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