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MetaCritic Rating 75%
TMDB Rating 6.4
IMDB Rating 7.1
RottenTomatoes Rating 91%

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Status: Released

Average Rating: 6

Release Date: Mar 12, 2003

Rating: 2003-03-12

Run Time: 1h 47m

Original Language: French

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Production Countries: Japan , France

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Synopsis

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.


Main Cast

Sylvie Testud

Sylvie Testud

Amélie

Age : 53 | Popularity : 40%

Kaori Tsuji

Kaori Tsuji

Fubuki

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Bison Katayama

Bison Katayama

Mr Omochi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Tarô Suwa

Tarô Suwa

Monsieur Saito

Age : N/A | Popularity : 19%

Yasunari Kondo

Yasunari Kondo

Monsieur Tenshi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Sokyu Fujita

Sokyu Fujita

Monsieur Haneda

Age : N/A | Popularity : 29%

Gen Shimaoka

Gen Shimaoka

Monsieur Unaji

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Heileigh Gomes

Heileigh Gomes

Amélie enfant

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%


Crew

Department Role Name
Directing Director
Alain Corneau
Alain Corneau
Writing Writer
Alain Corneau
Alain Corneau
Novel
Amélie Nothomb
Amélie Nothomb
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