SunnyHello Nice effects though.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Jayden-Lee Thomson One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

shivasitaraman The simple story of simple folks living far apart from each other and from vastly different cultures. Reminiscent of some of the old Satyajit Ray movies. As others have stated, the setting and the acting by all the major players, especially of Rahul Bose, keeps one glued to it. Highly recommend this one

rahul-sah089 I like this movie. It is having a tragic end which is going to stay with you forever. The movie depicts the charming love story of Snehamoy, a mild manner school teacher staying in the outskirts of Suderbans(a village in West Bengal) and a girl faraway in a Japanese village who start out as pen-pals,fall in love and remain in long distance relationship for almost 17 years without meeting each other.Their romance unfolds through series of letters and occasional phone call.Surely this movie will evoke emotion within you."The Japanese Wife", being made by Aparna Sen, one of India's top art-house filmmakers, is the latest in a trend to showcase the lives and emotions of ordinary people in contrast to Bollywood's traditional offerings of fluffy romances or violent dramas.

vishnu_kumar7 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...

eoias The Japanese Wife is an exquisitely crafted film, with the entire emotional gamut of a love story so unbelievable and yet so touching and universal distilled onto the silver screen. The performances are heart-rending and so realistic that the viewer is just pulled completely into the characters' world. From the restrained turbulence of Raima Sen to the poignancy of Chigusa Takaku, this film probably marks complete departures in roles for its entire cast. The direction is expectedly superb from Aparna Sen as each scene seems to sigh with the beauty of the Sunderbans and delicately fashion each character in the landscape.Most interesting for me was the subtle way in which the film tried to make a point about xenophobia and the stupidity of people who adhere to it. When Miyage sends over a box of kites for their 15th wedding anniversary which Snehamoy intends to fly at the Vishwakarma Puja, the sporting kite war is turned into shouts of "Bharater ghuri Zindabad! Japaner ghuri Murdabad!" from one ignorant tramp, which then another ignorant tramp turns into "Duniyar mazdur ek ho!".In all, a triumph for the cast, crew and for romantics who dare to believe in the impossible. A must see.