Last Letter - Hideaki Anno Acting

[Gendo'sPapa]

Maybe I missed this but aside from a post here and there on Twitter I haven't seen anyone create a topic or comment here on this so I figured I'd share it:

Hideaki Anno seems to have a role in an upcoming Japanese movie called Last Letter. It apparently starts a roadshow release in Japan very soon starting Friday January 17th. It's a drama written & directed by Shunji Iwai about a failed romance that never came to be spread across several decades seemingly starting in 1992. This is a nice & surprising reunion of Shiki-Jitsu's actor & director only the roles have reversed. It doesn't appear to be that Anno has a lead role and he might only be in a few scenes or even just one but he's prominent enough in it to get a credit in the trailer & appear on the poster. A nice little side project he must have done at some point in 2019 during production on 3.0 + 1.0. The man is nothing if not busy lately.

I know little about Iwai myself and haven't done enough digging to confirm this but curiously enough I think this movie might be a remake of Shunji Iwai's last movie which was his 2018 Chinese debut called.... Last Letter.

Trailer (Anno appears for one shot exactly at the 1 minute mark):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvkzNshmjCA

[FreakyFilmFan4ever]

The cinematography looks really pretty. I do wanna see this film, but I doubt it’ll get a wide release.

[robersora]

Shunji Iwai is the guy who made All about Lily Chou Chou, which some people here adored back in the day... it really is a great movie about teenage angst. The OST is superb either way.
He also did the rotoscoped "The Case of Hana and Alice", which is an amazing movie - despite a confused first third the latter two thirds more than make up for it. Great movie.


This movie does seem kinda melodramatic, but then again, most Japanese Live Action trailers try to invoke this feeling, so I'm definitely interested in checking this out!
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