Fear and Trembling (2003)
Stupeur et tremblements
ThumbScore
👍 71%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 91%
(RT: 91%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Kaori Tsuji as Fubuki
Bison Katayama as Monsieur Omochi
Tarō Suwa as Monsieur Saito
Yasunari Kondo as Monsieur Tenshi
Sokyu Fujita as Monsieur Haneda
Gen Shimaoka as Monsieur Unaji
Heileigh Gomes as Amélie enfant
Is Fear and Trembling good?
Most people think so. 71% audience score, estimated from 140 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 91%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
