The Japanese Wife (2010) on Netflix
Snehamoy Chatterjee teaches arithmetic in the Sundarbans and is married by letter to Miyage, his Japanese pen friend. They have never met. His aunt wants him to marry Sandhya.
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Plot summary
On Bali Island, in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, Snehamoy Chatterjee teaches arithmetic and lives with his maternal aunt, who hopes he will marry Sandhya. He and Miyage, a pen friend in Japan, wrote to each other for years and then exchanged wedding vows in their letters, though they have never met. Sandhya, a young widow with an eight-year-old son named Poltu, comes to stay in the house. Snehamoy takes to the boy and settles into daily life with the two of them, while he keeps writing to Miyage and remains loyal to the wife he has not seen.
Cast
- Jagannath Guhaas Oncologist
- Sagnik Chowdhuryas Paltu
- Sourodip Bhattacharyaas Young Snehamoy
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Japanese Wife (2010)
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- Chigusa Takaku won the title role in The Japanese Wife after Aparna Sen hired an agency and chose her from among 12 auditioned girls; she landed the part despite knowing no English.
- Aparna Sen's daughter Konkona Sen Sharma was the first choice for the role that went to Raima Sen in The Japanese Wife, a character Sen named Sandhya even though the original short story never gives her a name.
- The Japanese Wife's DVD was released in India only a month after the film's cinema premiere to fight piracy, yet the film was pirated and sold online before the producers could file an injunction against the company.
- The Japanese Wife, which Aparna Sen wrote and directed, was the first time she made a film based on someone else's story.
