DEAR ETRANGER

OSANAGO WARERANI UMARE

By Yukiko MISHIMA

EMPHASIS VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED - as DISTR Airline, World

Family - Completed 2017

The human drama explores the meaning of “family” through the complex relationships between a 44-year-old man, his ex-wife, their daughter who lives with her mother, his current wife, her children from a previous marriage, and a new child they are about to bring into the world.

Festivals
& Awards

San Sebastian FF 2017
Film Library (not in selection)
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • JAPAN
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 127 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Yukiko MISHIMA
    • Synopsis
    • I am a 44-year-old man trying to build an ordinary family with my second wife and her two daughters from a previous marriage.
      But when my wife becomes pregnant, the eldest stepdaughter becomes openly rebellious and insists that she wants to see her “real dad.” Admittedly, I, too, often compare her to my daughter from my previous marriage. Feeling stifled by my current family, I ask my wife to abort the baby…