The Japanese Wife (2010)
105 min
Snehmoy and Miyage are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen 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, 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. But Snehmoy remained loyal to his unseen Japanese wife.
- Release date
- April 9, 2010
- Country of origin
- India
- Music
- Sagar Desai
Where to watch
Free with ads
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Trailer
Cast
- Rahul Bose as Snehamoy
- Chigusa Takaku as Miyage
- Raima Sen as Sandhya
- Moushumi Chatterjee as Mashi
- Paran Banerjee as Ayurvedic Doctor
- Kharaj Mukherjee as Kite Shop Owner
- Rudranil Ghosh as Fatik
- Jagannath Guha as Oncologist
- Kunal Basu as Angry Pedestrian
- Malay Bhattacharya
- Sagnik Chowdhury as Paltu
- Sourodip Bhattacharya as Young Snehamoy
- Ranu Bandhopadhyay as Sandhya's Mother
- Arindol Bagchi as Mailman
- Khagendra Nath Das as School Clerk
- Sutapa Ghosh as Khendi
Crew
- Aparna Sen · Director
- Kunal Basu · Writer
- Aparna Sen · Writer
- Sanjiv Goenka · Producer
- Apurv Nagpal · Producer
- Sankalp B. Varma · Producer
- Sagar Desai · Composer
- Anay Goswami · Cinematographer
- Rabiranjan Maitra · Editor
- Sohag Sen · Casting director
- Malay Bhattacharya · Production designer