Fear and Trembling

Fear and Trembling (2003)

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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  • Release Date: 2003-03-12
  • Runtime: 1h 47min
  • Director: Alain Corneau

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  • Cast

    • Sylvie Testud

      Amélie

    • Kaori Tsuji

      Fubuki

    • Bison Katayama

      Monsieur Omochi

    • Tarō 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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