I watched this movie because I wanted to check out Shunji Iwai, and this was his most rated movie on the site. Not what I was expecting, this film is very commercial, only . Actors are overly made-up, sets are twee. Everyone is supposed to be a mountain climber but there's not one shot of climbing. The plot starts off with a potentially interesting mistaken identity device but its irrelevant to the emotional thrust of the film - which is driven by forced drama and dead loved one exploitation. I get the sense that the lead actress was more of a celebrity than a serious actress. She plays two roles, and strangely I found that she was better in one of them than the other.
Review of Love Letter
