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Letter from an Unknown Woman
2004 6.7 (25 votes) 1h 30m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Asian Union Film Ltd.
Asian Union Film & Entertainment

Letter from an Unknown Woman (一个陌生女人的来信)

Overview

Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. she tells their brief but passionate love in her youthi the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails tor ecognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman.

Key Crew

Director: Xu Jinglei

Director of Photography: Mark Lee Ping-Bing

Writer: Xu Jinglei

Top Cast

Xu Jinglei
Xu Jinglei

Miss Jiang

Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen

Mr. Xu

Huang Jue
Huang Jue

Captain Huang

Lin Yuan
Lin Yuan

Girl

Jiao Huang
Jiao Huang

Officer Huang

Su Xiaoming
Su Xiaoming

Mother

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