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Released
1979 · FILM

The Three Undelivered Letters

Are the letters a notice of approaching death?

Directed by
Runtime
130 min
Language
JA
DramaMystery

Synopsis

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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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kazuo OtaShot by Takashi KawamataScored by Yasushi Akutagawa

Also known as

  • Drei Briefe, die nicht abgeschickt wurdende
  • The Three Undelivered Lettersen
  • Kasekies

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