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Fear and Trembling

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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.

Date: 03/12/2003
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Bison Katayama, Tarô Suwa, Yasunari Kondo, Sokyu Fujita, Gen Shimaoka, Heileigh Gomes, Eri Sakai

Sylvie Testud as Amélie in Fear and Trembling Sylvie Testud

Kaori Tsuji as Fubuki in Fear and Trembling Kaori Tsuji

Bison Katayama

Tarô Suwa as Monsieur Saito in Fear and Trembling Tarô Suwa

Yasunari Kondo

Sokyu Fujita as Monsieur Haneda in Fear and Trembling Sokyu Fujita

Gen Shimaoka as Monsieur Unaji in Fear and Trembling Gen Shimaoka

Heileigh Gomes

Eri Sakai

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