Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Sylvie Testud
Amélie
Lead
Kaori Tsuji
Fubuki
BK
Bison Katayama
Monsieur Omochi
Tarō Suwa
Monsieur Saito
YK
Yasunari Kondo
Monsieur Tenshi
Sokyu Fujita
Monsieur Haneda
Gen Shimaoka
Monsieur Unaji
HG
Heileigh Gomes
Amélie enfant
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alain Corneau's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Fear and Trembling is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
