‘The Japanese Wife’ Wins Best Film Award At Hidden Gems Film Festival  The Japanese Wife |
‘The Japanese Wife’ directed by filmmaker Aparna Sen has been awarded the best film at Hidden Gems Film Festival in Calgary, Canada. Databazaar Media Ventures (DMV) took care of the distribution of the film in North America.The film received the stunning Amolite Trophy.
The film which has dialogues in English, Bengali and Japanese is based on a young village school teacher played by Rahul Bose in the movie.The story is about the teacher falling in love with his Japanese pen friend (Chigusa Takaku).Both of them exchange letters and in the process fall for each other to the extent of taking marraige vows in the letters. The couple never meets in real life but stay true and loyal throughout their life. An amazing love story has been depicted in a very simple way.
DMV chairman Oney Seal said,"We knew that the film would do well at the festival, but it was beyond our comprehension that 92 percent would vote in favour of this film.”
Festival Director Niru Bhatia added,"Taj Mahal is known as the love poem in marbles, if you want to see a love poem on celluloid, see Aparna Sen’s ‘The Japanese Wife’.”
