``Amélie'' The director with a nightmarish sense succeeds in the challenge of making people happy. A movie that continues to be loved even today

Synopsis of "Amélie"

Amélie has been alone since she was a child. Having spent her time in a fantasy world, she has grown up and is now living alone in an apartment in Montmartre while working at a cafe. After going on an adventure to return a treasure chest she found in her bathroom to its owner, she starts to secretly meddle in other people's lives to make them just a little happier. One day, she meets Nino, a mysterious young man who collects discarded Amélie photos, and begins to feel confused by these new emotions...

Index

• A famous anecdote in the history of Japanese mini-theaters
• After making two films together, they moved to Hollywood.
• It also sparked a global crème brûlée craze.
• Will Amélie be revealed to be a KGB spy 22 years later?

A famous anecdote in the history of Japanese mini-theaters

The mini-theater boom in Japan occurred from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, and the mini-theater in Shibuya in particular was a driving force in the overall culture. Among them, Cinemarise continued to reign as a "sacred place" for mini theaters.

Cinemarise, which opened in 1986, has produced many hit films such as ` `Trainspotting '' (1996) and ` `Muthu: The Dancing Maharaja '' (1995/released in Japan in 1998). ``Amélie'' set the theater's highest box office revenue. It was released in November 2001 and had a long run of 36 weeks. Its popularity spread throughout Japan, and box office revenue reached a total of 1.6 billion yen. This is an unusual number for a mini-theater movie.

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What is so famous is this episode about the distribution of ``Amélie'' in Japan. The distribution company is Albatross Film. Mr. Shuntaro Kanoi of the company, who produces color works with a rather manic taste, completed the new film by the director of " Alien 4 " (1997) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), believing it to be about a stalker woman. When I bought it a while ago, it turned out to be a work with a "fashionable" aspect that would attract a large number of viewers to Cinema Rise...The story became a hot topic in the film industry at the time. Due to the unexpected success of ``Amélie'', in 2003, a TV drama `` Tokyo Love Cinema '' was produced, using Mr. Kanoi as a model, and depicting an independent film company, and aired in the ``Monthly 9'' slot. Yosuke Eguchi played the role of Mr. Kanoi, causing an uproar in the movie industry once again.

``Amélie'' was a number one hit in 2001 in her native France. It caused a global boom, being nominated in five categories at the Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film (currently Best International Feature Film), Best Screenplay, Best Art Design, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound.

After making two films together, they moved to Hollywood.