Love Letter

[Machine Translation] [The long-awaited fourth installment in the Ano Koro Eiga Shochiku DVD Collection (Movies of Those Days) series is now available on DVD for the first time. May I die as your wife? This love began with a will (love letter). --Goro Takano (Kiichi Nakai) is the manager of a humble video shop in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. The only thing he enjoys doing is seeing his only daughter with his divorced wife. One day, a yakuza named Satake (Nezu Jimpachi) asks him to sell his wife's identity to a Chinese woman named Bai Lan (Geng Zhong). It is a sham marriage. On the day of his release from prison, the warden tells him that his wife has died. He thought it was his divorced wife, but upon meeting Satake, he discovers that it was Shiraran, the woman he married under false pretenses, who died. Goro goes to retrieve Shiran's body with his younger brother Satoshi ( Taro Yamamoto ) and finds a letter addressed to him among the few belongings left behind....

Special Feature / Bonus Track: teaser(s)

[あの頃映画 松竹DVDコレクション] シリーズ第4弾 待望の初DVD化。お嫁さんのまま死んでもいいですか――。この愛は1通の遺書(ラブ・レター)から始まった。――高野吾郎(中井貴一)は、新宿の歌舞伎町でしがない裏ビデオ屋の店長を任されている。楽しみといえば離婚した女房との間にいる一人娘と会うことぐらいだ。ある日、世話になっている佐竹(根津甚八)というやくざに頼まれて中国人女性・白蘭(耿忠)に妻の籍を売ることになる。偽装結婚である。ひょんなことから留置場に入れられてしまった吾郎だが、出所の日に看守長から妻の死を告げられる。てっきり別れた女房だと思っていたが、佐竹と会って死んだのは偽装結婚をした、白蘭であったことを知る。やむなく吾郎は舎弟のサトシ(山本太郎)を連れて白蘭の遺体を引き取りにいくと、わずかな遺留品の中に自分宛の手紙を見つける・・・。

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