The Japanese Wife

Overview

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.

Directed by Aparna Sen

Top cast

Rahul Bose

Snehamoy Chatterjee

Chigusa Takaku

Miyage

Raima Sen

Sandhya

Moushumi Chatterjee

Maashi

Paran Banerjee

Ayurvedic Doctor

Kharaj Mukherjee

Kite Shop Owner

Rudranil Ghosh

Fatik

Debranjan Nag

Fatik's friend

J

Jagannath Guha

Oncologist

S

Sagnik Chowdhury

Paltu

S

Sourodip Bhattacharya

Young Snehamoy

Arindol Bagchi

Mailman

K

Khagendra Nath Das

School clerk

R

Runa Bandopadhyay

S

Sutapa Ghosh

Khendi

S

Supriti Das

Umi

T

Tomohiro Matsushita

F

Fuminori Mitomo

Miyage's father

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Minako Azuma

M

Miyuki Tanaka

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