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Shall We Dance?(Movie, 1996)

Original title: "Shall We ダンス?" (Japanese/JA)
PG
| 2h 16min | Genres: Music, Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
Shall We Dance?Rating: 3.7/5 (with 5858 votes)
Shall We Dance? (Japanese: Shall we ダンス?, Hepburn: Sharu wī dansu) is a 1996 Japanese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Masayuki Suo. Its title refers to the song "Shall We Dance?" which comes from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. It inspired the 2004 English-language remake of the same name. ()
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About Shall We Dance?

A bored Japanese accountant sees 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 ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Shot in: Japan
Plays in: Tokyo
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Japanese (JA)
Translated into 11 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 07/04/1997 (World premiere: 01/27/1996)
Director: Masayuki Suo
Screenwriter: Masayuki Suo
Film Editor: Jun'ichi Kikuchi
Director of Photography: Naoki Kayano
Composer: Yoshikazu Suo
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Shall we ダンス?"
"Shall we dansu?"
"쉘 위 댄스"
Keywords: dance lesson

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