Dear stranger (2025)

Name: Dear stranger
Released: 2025-09-12

Original title: Dear Stranger／ディア・ストレンジャー
Directed by: Tetsuya Mariko
Country: Taiwan
Rated: IIB
Rating: 7.5 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere: IMDb

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How it feels

A Japanese man and his Taiwanese-American wife navigate their marriage while living in America. The film follows their struggles with trust and the aftermath of personal loss.

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What happens

Dear Stranger is a 2025 film directed by Tetsuya Mariko starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Gwei Lun-mei. It explores themes of trust and grief in the American immigrant experience and multi-cultural marriage between a Japanese man and his Taiwanese-American wife. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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