Shindo’s latest and forty-ninth film follows the wayward path of the eponymous postcard written by a Japanese soldier to his young wife on the eve of his departure for the Pacific theater. Partially inspired by Shindo’s own experience as one of only six soldiers to survive his one hundred man unit, Postcard is a visually lush and unabashedly anti-war melodrama that wears its heart on its sleeve without tipping into sentimental excess, balancing its emotional intensity with a with moments of off-beat, almost ribald, humor. – HG