Fear and Trembling (2003)
Overview
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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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | fr |
| Popularity | 7.123 |
Directed By
Alain Corneau
Crew
Alain Corneau
Amélie Nothomb
Alain Corneau
Yves Angelo
Thierry Derocles
Pierre Gamet
Marion Stalens
Alain Sarde
Christine Gozlan
Kenzo Horikoshi
Valérie Leblanc
Philippe Taillefer
Sophie Benaiche
Michel Lunetta
Frédéric Blum
Olivier Chiavassa
Helene Glabeke
Martine Vergnes
Rodolphe Viémont
Mathieu Partay
Hideki Tomita
Vincent Trintignant
Didier Beauland
Jean-Louis Bergougnoux
Laurent Philippe
Jochen Rohrig
Nathalie Sarret
Stéphane Vinciguerra
Sandie Bompar
Bernard Chaumeil
Toni Di Rocco
Rodolphe Duhamel
Judith Guittier
Mineharu Kitamura
Jérôme Lévy
Armelle Mahé
Gréggory Poncelet
Patrice Fauquemberg
Philippe Hubin
Jean-Christophe Magnaud
Vincent Alexander
Frédéric Moreau
Sarah Moreau
Philippe Soeiro
Odile Guillodeau
Daniel Vérité
Jérôme Alméras
Pascal Hénin
Eric Le Roux
Rachid Madaoui
Makoto Sano
Yasushi Sasakibara
Daisuke Soma
Rokurō Terada
Jean-Baptiste Wery
Julie Mallard
Thomas Gilson
Aude Humblet
Sylvie Petat
Sylvie Petat
Gerard Savary
Philippe Tourret
Valérie Lindon
Laure Blaess
Mitsuko Jurgenson
TOP CAST
Sylvie Testud
Amélie
Kaori Tsuji
Fubuki
Bison Katayama
Monsieur Omochi
Tarô Suwa
Monsieur Saito
Yasunari Kondo
Monsieur Tenshi
Sokyu Fujita
Monsieur Haneda
Gen Shimaoka
Monsieur Unaji
Heileigh Gomes
Amélie enfant
Eri Sakai
Fubuki enfant
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