Shall We Dance? (1996)
(Shall We Dansu?)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 119m/135m
Director: Masayuki Suo
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe
Synopsis:
A city accountant, father and home-owner is drawn to a dance school by the sight of the teacher gazing out of the window, and overcomes conventional feelings of shame to take up lessons there.
Review:
Another dance movie and, though at times reminiscent of Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, sufficiently different from it to warrant attention. Its charm lies in its stripping away of the characteristic restraint of an introverted people to show at one moment the hilarious energy with which they embrace the other extreme, and at another the once timid leading man articulating a long speech about his feelings and motivations to the woman he loves.
(Shall We Dansu?)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 119m/135m
Director: Masayuki Suo
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe
Synopsis:
A city accountant, father and home-owner is drawn to a dance school by the sight of the teacher gazing out of the window, and overcomes conventional feelings of shame to take up lessons there.
Review:
Another dance movie and, though at times reminiscent of Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, sufficiently different from it to warrant attention. Its charm lies in its stripping away of the characteristic restraint of an introverted people to show at one moment the hilarious energy with which they embrace the other extreme, and at another the once timid leading man articulating a long speech about his feelings and motivations to the woman he loves.
(Shall We Dansu?)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 119m/135m
Director: Masayuki Suo
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eriko Watanabe
Synopsis:
A city accountant, father and home-owner is drawn to a dance school by the sight of the teacher gazing out of the window, and overcomes conventional feelings of shame to take up lessons there.
Review:
Another dance movie and, though at times reminiscent of Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom, sufficiently different from it to warrant attention. Its charm lies in its stripping away of the characteristic restraint of an introverted people to show at one moment the hilarious energy with which they embrace the other extreme, and at another the once timid leading man articulating a long speech about his feelings and motivations to the woman he loves.