”Love Letter,” a film starring Miho Nakayama, who passed away last year, topped ticket sales on the first day of its 30th anniversary re-release in Korea.

"Love Letter" (directed by Shunji Iwai), a masterpiece by Japanese singer and actress Miho Nakayama, who passed away last year, is celebrating its 30th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of its release in Korea, and will be shown in theaters on the first day of the new year.
It was re-released as a 0th anniversary edition. Accordingly, "Love Letter" made a meaningful start by recording 42% seat sales rate on the first day of the re-release, ranking first overall.
The 30th anniversary edition of "Love Letter" is gathering hot topics by reprising the vertical subtitle screening format that was used when the film was first released in Korea in 1999.
As a result, the film attracted 14,957 viewers on the first day of its re-release, despite the small number of theaters, and recorded the highest seating rate of 42%.
The film was also well received, with a rating of 9.5 on Megabox. The distributor, Waterhole Company, said, "We're still not seeing 'Love' in the movies.
The movie fans who want to see "Love Letter" in theaters, the audience who know "Love Letter" but have not yet seen it in theaters and are waiting for the theatrical release,
"It's the result of the combined efforts of a generation of 'Love Letter' fans who wanted to re-watch the film with vertical subtitles to evoke nostalgia," the statement said.
"Letter" has had many fans in Korea since it was first released in Japan in 1995.
In 1999, the film was officially screened in Korea, where it met a much larger audience.
When "Letter" was released, it was a huge hit, drawing audiences unimaginable in the 1990s (1.15 million in Seoul, an estimated 3 million nationwide).
Since then, it has been remembered as a masterpiece to this day. This 30th anniversary edition has corrected the mistranslations in the theatrical subtitles that many audiences and fans found disappointing, and has been restored to the original form that it was in when it was released in the 1990s.
The team focused on making the most of the film's originality by using vertical subtitles, which is the format used for the film.