Dear Stranger is a 2025 film directed by Tetsuya Mariko starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Gwei Lun-mei. It explores themes of trust and grief in the American immigrant experience and multi-cultural marriage between a Japanese man and his Taiwanese-American wife.

Plot

Kenji, a Japanese professor studying ruins and seeking tenure, and his wife Jane, a Taiwanese-American puppeteer, have a happy life in New York City with their son, Kai. However, as Jane becomes more absorbed in her life as a mother, she begins to lose a hold on her artistic dreams and identity. Their lives are thrown out of spin when Kai goes missing.