Shall We Dance?
She's got the moves… but he's got two left feet!
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1/27/1996Runtime
136 minsOverview
A bored Japanese accountant sees a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
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JapaneseBudget
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$43,000,000Homepage
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A quietly transformative story about a subdued man who discovers passion through dance and is forced to reckon with the gap between his constrained life and his awakening desires. It's touching without being melodramatic, celebrating both the grace of movement and the messy complications of adult yearning.
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Koji Yakusho
Shohei Sugiyama
Tamiyo Kusakari
Mai Kishikawa
Naoto Takenaka
Tomio Aoki
Eri Watanabe
Toyoko Takahashi
Akira Emoto
Detective Miwa
Yuu Tokui
Tokichi Hattori
Hiromasa Taguchi
Masahiro Tanaka
Reiko Kusamura
Tamako Tamura
Hideko Hara
Masako Sugiyama
Hiroshi Miyasaka
Macho
Kunihiko Ida
Teiji Kaneko
Amie Toujou
Hisako Honda
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