Tegami (2006)

I watched "Tegami" today because I heard it was a great movie. I saw the download link a year ago but I didn't download it because I thought it was a typical love story between 2 guys and 1 girl. Until I read the summary of and some comments about this movie.

Although the movie was kind of moving at a slow rate and hardly a lot of talking but it wasn't boring at all. The bond between Nao and Tsuyoshi was touching, the elder brother Tsuyoshi loved his little brother so much and the little brother Nao hated his brother for being a murder which maked him lost his job and girlfriend.

It's not actually sad at all but I was crying towards the end where his brother wrote the last letter to Ogata-san.

So overall I think this movie is great!

Summary: Focuses on two brothers who lost their parents when they were younger. The older brother works exhaustingly hard to earn enough money to send his younger brother to college. One day the older brother breaks into a house to get money for tuition and he accidentally kills an old woman. From here the younger brother’s tragic fate begins. Everything he has starts to slip away–his house, job, dream and lover–everything. But his older brother keeps sending letters regularly to tell of his life in jail. It is difficult to cut the bonds of brotherhood and he struggles to get out of his abyssal reality. Finally he meets a woman who saves him from his crisis. When he is in a threatening situation in which he is about to lose his small happiness with her he decides to cut the “vicious chain of letters” which are being sent from inside of the walls of prison.