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Love Letter in the Sand

Love Letter in the Sand

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Love Letter in the Sand

1988

1h 1m

5.8(13 votes)

Mystery

Drama

Horror

Overview

During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mystery assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing people with a metal bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect that he may in fact be the assailant. But her own strange erotic fixations with him, and the questionable involvement of the doctor tasked with the amnesia victim, lead them all down an increasingly twisted path of deeply-rooted trauma and violence.

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Kokuei Company

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Cast & crew

8 featured cast members

Starring

Maya Shiraki

Maya Shiraki

Aya Ikezawa

Yoko Fujita

Yoko Fujita

Kaori Uchida

Takeshi Itō

Takeshi Itō

Akira Yajima

Masahiko Sakata

Masahiko Sakata

Doctor Akasaka

Masahiko Itoh

Shigeru Sasaki

Takaaki Hashiguchi

Tetsu Sokura

Creative team

Directed by: Hisayasu Satō
Written by: Shirō Yumeno
Produced by: Keiko Satô

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