Letter from an Unknown Woman

Aka: Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin
Director: Xu Jinglei
Release date: March 4, 2005
Language: Mandarin
Subtitle: English (Soft-subbed)
Genre: Drama, Romance

Starring:
Xu Jinglei
Jiang Wen
Lin Yuan
Sun Feihu
Su Xiaoming

Synopsis:
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 to recognize 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. (IMDb)

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Awards:
Golden Rooster Awards
Best Art Direction: Juiping Cao
Best Cinematography: Pin Bing Lee
San Sebastián International Film Festival: Best Director: Xu Jinglei
Shanghai Film Critics Awards: Film of Merit

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