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Love Letter in the Sand

Love Letter in the Sand

1988, dir. Hisayasu Satô

JapanJapanese61m1.85:135mm

During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mysterious assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing women with a metal baseball bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect that he may in fact be the perpetrator. But her own strange erotic fixations with him—and the questionable involvement of the doctor tasked with the amnesia victim—lead them all down an increasingly twisted path of deeply-rooted trauma and violence.

An early effort from legendary pink film director Hisayasu Satô, Love Letter in the Sand is an atmospheric, noir-tinged erotic thriller filled with Satô’s trademark themes of urban alienation and voyeurism.

New 2K restoration by Vinegar Syndrome.

Theatrical Screenings

2025-10-25
Dallas, TX