10th February 2000

Shall We Dance?
(Shall we dansu?)

Director: Masayuki Suo

Japan, 1996

Run Time: 118 minutes, Certificate: ,
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Language: Japanese

Synopsis:

A workaholic accountant with a boring job and a failing marriage spies a beautiful woman in a ballroom dancing studio from the window of his commuter train. Initially, he is drawn to take dancing classes by lust, but as he gradually rediscovers self-confidence through the quickstep, his wife gets suspicious.

Average score 8.26

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