Shall We Dance? (Shall we dansu?) (1996)

  • Rated PG
  • 2hr 16m
  • 66

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Masayuki Suo, Masayuki Suo

Producer:

Yasuyoshi Tokuma, Yoichi Arishige, Kazuhiro Igarashi, Tetsuya Ikeda

Writer:

Masayuki Suo, Masayuki Suo

Release Date:

Jul 11, 1997

Runtime:

2hr 16m

Synopsis

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

Cast

  • Koji Yaskusho
  • Tamiyo Kusakari
  • Kôji Yakusho
  • Naoto Takenaka
  • Tamiyo Kusakari
  • Eriko Watanabe
  • Naoto Takenaka
  • Yu Tokui
  • Eri Watanabe
  • Yu Tokui
  • Hiromasa Taguchi
  • Reiko Kusamura
  • Hideko Hara
  • Hiroshi Miyasaka
  • Kunihiko Ida

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Metacritic

66
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Based on 17 Critics
7.5

USER SCORE (11)

Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Reviews
90

But the movie has a great deal of zest and charm, and Yakusho gets so exactly that crest of melancholy that is a man#146;s early 40s, until he decides to go for another kind of life, that the movie is infinitely touching.

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Metacritic review by Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
30

Its paper-thin characters turned into caricatures by egregious hamming, this 1996 Japanese comedy-drama about shy ballroom dancers is sentimental goo and downright interminable.

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Metacritic review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
80

The film successfully walks the thin line between slick commercialism and serious realism. It is sentimental, but it comes by its sentiment honestly, through well-observed performances by the leads and a keen insight into the quirks of the Japanese middle-class culture.

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Gregory Weinkauf
Dallas Observer
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