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Love Letter in the Sand
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Love Letter in the Sand

1988-07-28 · 61 min · ★ 5.8

Mystery · Drama · Horror

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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Directors
Hisayasu Satō
Production companies
Kokuei Company
Countries
Japan
Status
Released

Top Cast

Maya ShirakiMaya ShirakiAya Ikezawa
Yoko FujitaYoko FujitaKaori Uchida
Takeshi ItōTakeshi ItōAkira Yajima
Masahiko SakataMasahiko SakataDoctor Akasaka
Masahiko Itoh
Shigeru Sasaki
Takaaki Hashiguchi
Tetsu Sokura

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