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Fear and Trembling
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Fear and Trembling

2003-03-12 · 107 min · ★ 6.5

Comedy · Drama

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.

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Directors
Alain Corneau
Production companies
StudioCanal, Les Films Alain Sarde, Divali Films, France 3 Cinéma
Countries
Japan, France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Sylvie TestudSylvie TestudAmélie
Kaori TsujiKaori TsujiFubuki
Bison KatayamaMonsieur Omochi
Tarō SuwaTarō SuwaMonsieur Saito
Yasunari KondoMonsieur Tenshi
Sokyu FujitaSokyu FujitaMonsieur Haneda
Gen ShimaokaGen ShimaokaMonsieur Unaji
Heileigh GomesAmélie enfant
Eri SakaiFubuki enfant

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