Shall We Dance? (1996) ( Shall We Dansu? )

Shall We Dance? (1996) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Shall We Dansu?
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Surround )
German ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Surround )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
114 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Masayuki Suo

Written By:
Masayuki Suo

Actors:
Kôji Yakusho ..... Shohei Sugiyama
Tamiyo Kusakari ..... Mai Kishikawa
Naoto Takenaka ..... Tomio Aoki
Eriko Watanabe ..... Toyoko Takahashi
Yu 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
Ayano Nakamura ..... Chikage Sugiyama
Katsunari Mineno ..... Keiri-kachô
Tomiko Ishii ..... Haruko Haraguchi
Maki Kawamura ..... Eiko Miyoshi

Synopsis:

The accountant Shohei Sugiyama (Kôji Yakusho) is feeling bored with his routine life, limited to hard work and stay at home with his wife Masako Sugiyama (Hideko Hara) and his teenager's daughter. One night, while traveling home by train, he sees the beautiful face of Mai Kishikawa (Tamiyo Kusakari) in the balcony of a dance school, and a couple of days later, he decides to visit the school and secretly take ballroom dance lessons every Wednesdays night. However, he becomes ashamed to tell his family his secret. Meanwhile, Masako feels the changes in the behavior of her happier husband, and hires a private eye to investigate whether Shohei is having an affair.

Shohei Sugiyama is an accountant who spots a beautiful Japanese woman in a dance studio window. Hoping to get closer to her, even though he's married and has a child, he signs up for dance lessons in secret, and slowly begins to fall in love with the art form itself.

Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 February, 2012.