{"id":2040854,"date":"2025-09-22T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2040854"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:38:14","slug":"nishijima-hidetoshi-gwei-lun-mei-and-mariko-tetsuya-on-busan-title-dear-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nishijima-hidetoshi-gwei-lun-mei-and-mariko-tetsuya-on-busan-title-dear-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishijima Hidetoshi, Gwei Lun-Mei and Mariko Tetsuya on Busan Title \u2018Dear Stranger\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following the explosive violence of \u201cDestruction Babies,\u201d Japanese filmmaker Mariko Tetsuya has pivoted to explore a different kind of devastation in \u201cDear Stranger<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the quiet collapse of a marriage under the weight of unspoken truths and cultural displacement.<\/p>\n

The drama, which had its international premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, stars Nishijima Hidetoshi (Oscar-winning \u201cDrive My Car<\/a>\u201d) and Gwei Lun-Mei<\/a>. Set against the backdrop of New York, the film follows Kenji<\/a> (Nishijima), a Japanese professor desperately seeking tenure, and Jane (Gwei), a Taiwanese-American puppeteer struggling to balance motherhood with her artistic identity. When their young son Kai goes missing, the couple\u2019s carefully constructed life begins to unravel.<\/p>\n

For Mariko<\/a>, whose previous work \u201cDestruction Babies\u201d earned him the Golden Leopard for Best Emerging Director at Locarno, the shift to emotional rather than physical violence was sparked by his return to Japan during the pandemic. \u201cThe starting point was on…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the explosive violence of \u201cDestruction Babies,\u201d Japanese filmmaker Mariko Tetsuya has pivoted to explore a different kind of devastation in \u201cDear Stranger\u201d \u2014 the quiet collapse of a marriage under the weight of unspoken truths and cultural displacement. The drama, which had its international premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, stars Nishijima Hidetoshi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2040855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2040854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nishijima-Hidetoshi-Gwei-Lun-Mei-and-Mariko-Tetsuya-on-Busan-Title.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2040855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}