| Shall We Dance - Shall we dansu? (1997)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Kôji Yakusho |
Shohei Sugiyama
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| Tamiyo Kusakari |
Mai Kishikawa
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| Naoto Takenaka |
Tomio Aoki
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| Koji Yakusho |
Shohei Sugiyama
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| Hideko Hara |
Masako Sugiyama
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| Eriko Watanabe |
Toyoko Takahashi
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| Akira Emoto |
Toru Miwa
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| Masahiro Motoki |
Hiromasa Kimoto
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| Reiko Kusamura |
Tamako Tamura
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| Shuichiro Moriyama |
Ryo Kishikawa
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| Misa Shimizu |
Natsuko
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| Yu Tokui |
Tokichi Hattori
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| Hiromasa Taguchi |
Masahiro Tanaka
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| Plot |
| Reminiscent of the Australian hit Strictly Ballroom (1992), this romantic comedy from Japan was a hit in its country of origin, despite (or perhaps because of) its tacit criticisms of the restrictive aspects of Japanese culture. Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) is a typically strait-laced Japanese businessmen who, passing by in his commuter train one day, glimpses a beautiful young woman, Mai (real-life ballerina Tamiyo Kusakari) through the window of a dance school. Obsessed with her, Shohei enrolls in the school and meets instructor Mai, who at first mistakes Shohei for a philanderer. To her surprise, however, Shohei is a naturally gifted dancer interested in an artistic partnership only, and Mai begins training with him for a competition. Meanwhile, Shohei becomes familiar with his eccentric fellow students, including one person that Shohei already knows, a co-worker (Akira Emoto) who blooms in the dance sessions as a bewigged master of rumba. As dancing is frowned upon in Japan as a frivolous enterprise for a respectable businessman, Shohei keeps his sideline hobby secret, leading his wife to believe that he's being unfaithful and to hire a private investigator to follow him. — Karl Williams |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy; Foreign; Romance |
| Director |
Masayuki Suo |
| Producer |
Yasuyoshi Tokuma; Kazuhiro Igarashi; Hiroyuki Kato |
| Writer |
Masayuki Suo |
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| Studio |
Disney / Buena Vista |
| Country |
Japan
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| Language |
Japanese |
| Audience Rating |
PG |
| Running Time |
135 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
7/11/1997 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
No |
| Index |
454 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
4/26/2005 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
786936262049 |
| Release Date |
2/1/2005 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Surround |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned |
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