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Shall We Dance? poster
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MASTER SCORE 86.9 / 100
1996·Comedy / Drama / Music·2h 16m

SHALL WE DANCE?

“She's got the moves… but he's got two left feet!”

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

Above the Line
Masayuki Suô·DirectorMasayuki Suō·ScreenplayNaoki Kayano·Director of PhotographyYoshikazu Suo·Original Music ComposerJun'ichi Kikuchi·Editor
Cast
Koji Yakusho·Shohei SugiyamaTamiyo Kusakari·Mai KishikawaNaoto Takenaka·Tomio AokiEri Watanabe·Toyoko TakahashiAkira Emoto·Detective MiwaYuu Tokui·Tokichi HattoriHiromasa Taguchi·Masahiro TanakaReiko Kusamura·Tamako TamuraHideko Hara·Masako SugiyamaHiroshi Miyasaka·Macho
Full Crew
(11 credits)
Directing· 1
Masayuki Suō·Director
Writing· 1
Masayuki Suō·Screenplay
Camera· 1
Naoki Kayano·Director of Photography
Editing· 1
Jun'ichi Kikuchi·Editor
Sound & Music· 1
Yoshikazu Suo·Original Music Composer
Production· 6
Yuji Ogata·ProducerShoji Masui·ProducerYasuharu Urushido·ProducerKazuhiro Igarashi·ProducerShigeru Ohno·ProducerHiroyuki Kato·Producer
By the Numbers
86.9
OF 100
Master Score
7.7
OF 10
IMDb
91%
CRITICS
Rotten Tomatoes
$43M
Worldwide Gross
0
Oscar Wins
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