The Three Undelivered Letters

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About the film

The Three Undelivered Letters

Release Date: October 06, 1979

Year	:	1979
Slogan	:	«Are the letters a notice of approaching death?»
Genres	:	Drama, Mystery
Production Companies	:	Shochiku
Director	:	Yoshitaro Nomura
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Writers	:	Kaneto Shindō, Frederic Dannay, Manfred Lee
RunTime	:	130 mins.

Noriko had been engaged to marry Toshiyuki Fujimura, who worked at her father’s bank. One day however, Fujimura mysteriously disappears. From that day, Noriko keeps herself locked up in her room. After three years of Noriko shutting herself up like a doll without a soul, Fujimura suddenly returns. Noriko’s family’s first reaction was strong rejection, but Noriko asks no questions and embraces him warmly. One day, as Noriko is cleaning her husband’s room, three envelopes accidentally fall from the pages of one of the books she had picked up. The first letter is dated August 11th, saying that his wife had suddenly taken ill. The second, dated August 20th, says that his wife is now critically sick, and the third letter, dated September 1st, is an announcement of his wife’s death. The wife is obviously Noriko, but she is alive and well. Do the letters then mean a preliminary notice of Noriko’s death?