Tokyo Fiancée (film)

Tokyo Fiancée
Film poster
Directed byStefan Liberski
Written byStefan Liberski
Based onTokyo Fiancée
by Amélie Nothomb
Produced byJacques-Henri Bronckart
Olivier Bronckart
StarringPauline Étienne
Taichi Inoue
Julie Le Breton
CinematographyHichame Alaouié
Edited byFrédérique Broos
Music byCasimir Liberski
Distributed byO'Brother Distribution
Release dates
  • 7 September 2014 (2014-09-07) (TIFF)
  • 8 October 2014 (2014-10-08) (Belgium)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryBelgium
LanguagesFrench
Japanese
English
Budget€3.1 million
Box office$167,230

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.