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A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.


A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.

Hideko Takamine

Kinya Kitaoji

Keiju Kobayashi

Keiko Tsushima
Shin Katagiri

Komaki Kurihara

Kōzaburō Onogawa

Hiroyuki Ôta
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka is a drama, romance film released in 1976. Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, it stars Hideko Takamine, Kinya Kitaoji, Keiju Kobayashi. A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.
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