Tokyo Fiancée
- 2014
- 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
2.2K
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A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.A young Japanophile Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student.
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- 3 nominations
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- TriviaBased on Amélie Nothomb's love affair with Rinri Mizuno when she was living Japan in her early twenties. Although the real-life events took place in the early 1990s, the director set the film in the early 2010s. The real-life events narrated in Tokyo Fiancée took place at the same time than those narrated in Fear and Trembling (2003).
- ConnectionsFollows Fear and Trembling (2003)
- SoundtracksBig in Japan
Performed by Ane Brun
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"Everything that one loves becomes fiction"
Amélie (Pauline Etienne) was born in Kansai but she is Belgian, unfortunate twist of fate as she stubbornly wants to become « a venerable Japanese writer ». So at the age of 20 Amelie leaves Belgium for Japan to realize her dream. There, to earn her living, she teaches french to Rinri (Taichi Inoue), a young Japanese french culture enthusiast, as sweet and charming as he is sometimes impenetrable
From the ryokans on Sado Island to the streets of Shinjuku, in the intimacy of a cozy room on a rainy and bathing in the hot water of onsens, Amélie and Rinri take a great delight in being together, like enamored kids exploring the pleasures of love, between complicity, fondness and sensuality. But in the mist of discovery and fantasy, it is sometimes difficult to answer the most important : who am I, what do I want ?
Through breast-taking shots of Japanese city, suburbs, rivers and mountains, Stefan Liberski offers a coming-of-age film in the form of a playful comedy, funny, light but not always as light as it seems, brought to life by a remarkable pair of actors.
"Delicious, yes, that's the word."
Through breast-taking shots of Japanese city, suburbs, rivers and mountains, Stefan Liberski offers a coming-of-age film in the form of a playful comedy, funny, light but not always as light as it seems, brought to life by a remarkable pair of actors.
"Delicious, yes, that's the word."
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $167,230
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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