Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom
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1hr
5mins
Directed by
Naomi Kawase,
Starring
Nishii Kazuo,
Kazuo Nishii, renowned editor and photography critic, died in 2001 of stomach cancer. Two months earlier he contacted Naomi Kawase, whose works he admired, to document the remaining weeks of his life. Kawase visits him in the hospital and films the progression of his sickness and the conversations between the two.