I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

A Masterpiece!

A different way of telling a story

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

In a poor island in the countryside of India, the school teacher Snehamoy Chatterjee (Rahul Bose) becomes the pen friend of the Japanese Miyage (Chigusa Takaku). When his aunt Mashi (Moushumi Chatterjee) wants to marry him with the young Sandhya (Raima Sen), he engages in a marriage commitment with Miyage that becomes his Japanese wife. However, neither he can afford to travel to Japan nor Miyage can leave her old mother alone to travel to India. Meanwhile Sandhya marries and has a son.After fifteen years, she gets widowed and moves to Mashi's house. But Snehamoy is still married with Miyage without seeing each other. When his Japanese wife has cancer, Snehamoy consults Indians doctors trying to find a cure for Miyage. Will they finally be together after all those years? "The Japanese Wife" is a delicate romance about platonic love. The original story is very beautiful, despite the sad and unpredictable conclusion, and for Westerns like me it is a chance to see the costumes and behavior of the Indians. The music score is also very beautiful and suits perfectly to the film. I just regret that the responsible for the subtitles have not noticed that yellow subtitles in white background are absolutely illegible. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): Not Available

Excellent plot and very touchy movie I have watched after a long time. Thank you thank you thank you to Aparna Sen and everyone worked for this movie. Even in today's modern techno era she is giving a nice message through a simple yet ever lasting movie. Rahul, Mousomi and Raima are excellent in their respective roles.This movie is about a pen friendship between a guy (Rahul) of very very rural area of West Bengal, India and a girl (Chigusa) from Japan. They fall in love and marry by exchanging letters. They were committed to each other. That's how the title came - The Japanese Wife. The wife came to W.B, India to meet her husband after 17 years of marriage (through letter) but what's waiting there...you must watch. Hope you'll enjoy.Note: Most of the letter conversations are in English and it has a sub title as well. So folks who don't know Bengali, shouldn't be a problem.Thanks!

The Japanese wife will left you with mixed feeling when you will come out of the theater...Rahul Bose delivered one of his best performance in this movie..The storyline of the movie is simple,lucid and soothing to the viewers...Cinematography in Sundanbans must had been a tough job but very well delivered...The most amazing part of the cinematography was the capturing of floods in the second half of the movie...The kite fight added some light moments in the movie.. though in the end,movie left me with gloomy feeling where all the characters sacrificed almost everything...the message of the movie is difficult to pen down in words but whatever it is..its delivered with perfection... simply awesome movie to watch...

A self-billed "love poem" by Aparna Sen.The movie concerns itself with Snehamoy (Rahul Bose), a Bengali schoolteacher and his Japanese penpal Miyage (Chigusa Takaku). Eventually, they declare themselves married. However, Snehamoy finds that being married to a woman merely through correspondence isn't as easy as he thought.I did everything I could to ignore the sheer preposterousness of the basic premise. The movie never explained how did Snehamoy even met Miyage; there never was a personal encounter between them. The two characters are incredibly shy people; Snehamoy lives with his aunt who is the world to him and Miyage with her mother.The movie's story is told primarily with Snehamoy and Miyage narrating their letters to one-another in heavily-accented English; you know it is the native tongue of neither, so they both keep dictionaries handy when writing letters to one-another. The movie surrounds Snehamoy, so you know everything there is to know about him, and next to nothing about Miyage besides what she writes in her letters to Snehamoy.The movie also had a subplot where a widowed woman (who Snehamoy's aunt once tried to engage him to) and her son move into Snehamoy's house. It was vaguely hinted that Snehamoy and this woman had feelings for each other, but the way their relationship was handled was clumsy at best and bore little to no consequence to overall plot.In fact, that, like many scenes in the movie, kind of felt like it was merely added to pad the movie's length. Another scene that comes to mind is the "kite fighting" scene where Snehamoy pitted Japanese kites that Miyage sent him against local Indian ones. I simply failed to see what implications that scene held for the rest of the movie.Well, the big problem with the story that I was simply bored out of my mind, despite The Japanese Wife being only about 100 minutes long. The characters completely failed to engage me and I pretty much felt that there really was no point to the story. Moreover, every time the movie attempted to elicit some sort of emotion, be it laughter or tears, it totally fell flat on its face.To add insult to injury, Rahul Bose's acting was probably the worst I have seen in recent memory in a movie that was not a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. The supporting cast does a generally passable job, but Bose had so much screen time that he was simply impossible to ignore. Of course, having to read a rather lame script didn't exactly help matters.What I did appreciate was the movie's attempt to sort of be multicultural by giving lessons of Japanese culture (to an ostensibly largely Indian audience) at the beginning, but even then that was something the movie just sort of abandoned.Aparna Sen is known for doing rather artsy-fartsy low budget Bengali movies. I personally feel that they often wound up making it obvious how totally in love with themselves they are, and The Japanese Wife was no exception; I think the disc label calling the movie a "love poem" is indicative of that. I couldn't help but feel that Aparna Sen was almost over my shoulder saying, "Of course my movie is great! If you don't like it, that makes you a dumb gorilla incapable of appreciating real art!" I love indie films because most of the ones I have seen truly hold artistic merit, and that simply was not the case here.The movie began with a massive real showing a list of corporations that helped fund this movie. This is the first time I've heard of a pen company helping finance a movie; I felt that this list was shown at the beginning for one of two reasons:1. Sen wanted to say, "Look! We didn't have the money, but these corporations, EVEN A PEN COMPANY, saw what a great movie this would be and helped us bring this piece of art to life!"2. Or they knew not too many people would bother waiting to see all of the end credits to get to a "Special Thanks" list, so they might was well show it at the beginning.OK, it was a functional movie and a lot of effort was put into it, but TJW simply missed the mark. Unless you're suffering from insomnia and need a cure, you're better off watching something else. The Japanese Wife was simply extremely mediocre instead of being "so bad it's good".