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Golden Horse 2025 Interview: DEAR STRANGER Director Tetsuya Mariko Talks Transnational Filmmaking, New York, and Puppet Theater

The director of Toei's first English-language feature talks puppets, New York, and transnational dialogues.

Busan 2025 Review: In DEAR STRANGER, a Kidnapping Cracks Open a Troubled Marriage

Hidetoshi Nishijima and Gwei Lun-Mei star in director Mariko Tetsuya's suspense thriller.

Friday One Sheet: DEAR STRANGER

Simple line art, or is there more?  The key art for Tetsuya Mariko's New York City-set drama, Dear Stranger, has a few interesting textural things going on beyond its doodle-in-the-margin first glance.  First is the subtle texture, like a badly...