Tokyo Fiancée (2014)

Directed by

Stefan Liberski

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Belgium, Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

16+

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Belgian woman moves to Tokyo where she starts giving French lessons. She falls into a romance with one of her students, a Japanese man her age.

romanticgentlewarmbittersweetlightheartedtenderintrospectiveslow-burn

What happens

Tokyo Fiancée is a 2014 Belgian romance-drama film written and directed by Stefan Liberski. It is based on Amélie Nothomb's 2007 autographical novel of the same name. The movie tells the story of a 21-year-old Belgian woman, Amélie (Pauline Étienne), who has a romance with Rinri (Taichi Inoue), a young Japanese man in Tokyo. She met him when she offered French language tutoring services through a bulletin board. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. It received three nominations at the 5th Magritte Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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