“Dear Strange”, from Nisijima Hedochi, reveals an international trailer

Mariko Tetsuya drama “Dear Stranger” has unveiled its international trailer.

After its theatrical release on September 12 in Japan, the film made the first international show at the Busan International Film Festival and will serve as the closing movie at the Golden Horses Film Festival.

Nichijima Hidetoshi starring (Drive My Car) and GWEI Lun-Mei (“Black Charcoal, Snow Snow”), “Dear Stranger” follows an Asian couple in New York whose marriage collapses when their young son is lost. The film explores the topics of identity, isolation and culture through what Marico describes as “cold violence” – the silent cruelty in intimate relationships.

Marico, who won the Locarno Award, developed the best director of “destruction children” (2016), the project during his 2019 stay at the Richawar Institute at Harvard University. The experience of living as an external in America informed the examination of the film of cultural displacement and linguistic barriers.

The production was fully filmed on the site in New York in late 2024, and witnessed an international crew including film photographer Sasaki Yasoyii, editor Matteo Lacola, and composer Jim Orkork. Puppet director Blair Thomas invented sequences that reflect the artistic background of the wife and the experience of immigrants.

With 90 % of the English dialogue, production requires large -scale table readings to help the multi -language founder absorb their roles.

Roji Films and TOEI offer this feature, with the world’s sales that are treated by EST N8 and TOEI. The distribution was set through TOEI in Japan, Jokers movies in France, and applause entertainment in Taiwan.

See the international trailer here: