Tokyo Fiancée
Tokyo Fiancée
| 08 October 2014 (USA)
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A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.

Reviews
Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
ksf-2 SPOILERSAmelie (Pauline Etienne) returns to Japan after many years of being away. Everyone speaks very fast! Such energy. Amelie even speaks of the energy and happiness she feels. Right off, I notice the neat, organized gardens, even at the houses near the train tracks. She starts teaching French to a rich Japanese boy "Rinri", played by Taichi Inoue. Although he seems to know just as much francais as she does. My first thought was: rich kid hires a tutor to find a girlfriend. Was kind of fun to hear the mix of Japanese and French, as they meet up with Rinri's friends. We also see all the fun Japanese gadgets, and the dekotora. Funny scene of the old man singing over the transit trains... where no-one will be disturbed. They could have left out the scene where Amelie sings her corny "happy" song. Beautiful scenes of the Japanese countryside when she goes hiking. The whole length of the film, we are wondering, as Amelie is wondering, "Where is this going?" It got a bit confusing. At first, the flashes into her mind are amusing, but sometimes its difficult to know what is real and what she is thinking in her mind. Fine performances by Etienne and Inoue. This was the first and only film for Inoue so far, but Etienne has done many. Directed by Stefan Liberski, who has worked in films for many years. Story by Amélie Nothomb... note that this is also the name of our lead. Wonder if this is also her story. Sad ending. Clearly the relationship went the way that the author wanted (or experienced in real life) or she could have taken steps to keep the relationship alive. This received such (un-deserved) low ratings on netflix. It's not bad. Pretty good.
Leslie Cole Amélie (Pauline Ètienne) is a twenty year old Belgian expatriate, French tutor living in Japan. When Rinri's (Taichi Inoue) well-to-do father hires Amélie to teach his son, the two quickly fall in love. Although Amélie was born in Japan and adores everything about its culture, she painfully learns that that is not enough to be accepted in Japanese society. Will Rinri, a closet Francophile and lover of Yakuza film, find the balance needed to present Amélie to his family as an honorable Japanese woman? Pauline Ètienne's Amélie shares the quirkiness of Audrey Tautou's character in the film of the same name ("Amélie"), all the allure of Scarlett Johansson's Charlotte from "Lost in Translation," and the gullibility of Shirley MacLaine's Charity Hope Valentine of "Sweet Charity." What separates "Tokyo Fiancée" from the aforementioned trio of hopeless romantic tales is the absolutely breathtaking scenery that cameraman Hichame Alaouié deftly captures. "Tokyo Fiancée" is a cinematic engagement worth accepting.
paul_3-960-896774 Tokyo Fiancée is an initiatory trip to finding your identity, Amélie (Pauline Etienne) embarks on a journey to find herself. Born in Japan from Belgian parents, she leaves Belgium for the country of her dreams, Japan. Marveling at a culture and a language she feels she missed out on and wants to absorb, but the metamorphosis is not as swift as she had hoped.The film has the sensibility and beauty of Japanese and French film making. It's sweet, innocent and a bit dark. Slowly immersing the audience into a country, a city, and a culture it introduces Japan beautifully through Amélie and Rinri (Taichi Inoue)'s eyes. They both aspire to learn from each other and almost inevitably become close.Amélie and Rinri may be culturally different but they seem to share the same quirkiness. The actors are both touching in the film, they made Rinri and Amélie feel real and natural. Pauline Etienne smartly portrayed Amélie's bubbly personality and her evolution throughout the movie. The movie also smartly integrated the events of Fukushima in the story, making the horrid fit into the atypical love story.Tokyo Fiancée is not exactly a love story, more of a friendship love story. It shows Japan brilliantly, as exciting and slightly confusing as that it may be.
Auritachan 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."