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The Japanese Wife is a film of genre Drama directed by Aparna Sen with Rahul Bose

The Japanese Wife (2010)

The Japanese Wife
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Length 1h45
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Genres Drama,    Romance
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The Japanese Wife (Japanese: ザ ・ジャッパニーズ ・ワイフ)
is a 2010 epistolary romantic Indian film directed by Bengali filmmaker Aparna Sen. It stars Rahul Bose, Raima Sen and Moushumi Chatterjee, and Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku in the title role. It is in English, Bengali and Japanese.
The film was originally scheduled for release in October 2008, but the release was delayed until 9 April 2010.

The story revolves around a young Bengali village school teacher (Rahul Bose) marrying his Japanese pen friend (Chigusa Takaku) over letters and remaining true and loyal to her throughout his life, while actually never meeting her.

Synopsis

Snehmoy Chatterjee (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Seventeen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a young widow, Sandhya (Raima Sen), comes to stay with Snehmoy along with her eight-year-old son Poltu. Snehmoy and the little boy bond and the arithmetic teacher discovers the joy of palpable bonds and fatherhood. There develops an inexplicable thread of understanding with Sandhya too.

Actors

Rahul Bose

(Snehamoy Chatterjee)Raima Sen

(Sandhya)Moushumi Chatterjee

(Maashi)Chigusa Takaku

(Miyage)Rudranil Ghosh

(Fatik)
And :
Paran Bandopadhyay
Kharaj Mukherjee
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