Hisayasu Satō, 1988, Japan, 61 mins
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 Satō, Love Letter in the Sand is an atmospheric, noir-tinged erotic thriller filled with Satō’s trademark theme of urban alienation. New 2K restoration!