Shall We Dance? is a 1996 award - winning Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is Shall We Dansu? (Shall We ダンス? ) which refers to the earlier 1934 movie "Shall We Dance" starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. It may also refer to the song, "Shall We Dance" in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. It was directed by Masayuki Suo.
A 2004 film, also called Shall We Dance? is an American remake of the film. It stars Richard Gere, Susan S...
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Shall We Dance? is a 1996 award - winning Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is Shall We Dansu? (Shall We ダンス? ) which refers to the earlier 1934 movie "Shall We Dance" starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. It may also refer to the song, "Shall We Dance" in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. It was directed by Masayuki Suo.
A 2004 film, also called Shall We Dance? is an American remake of the film. It stars Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, and Jennifer Lopez.
The film begins with a close-up of the inscription above the stage in the ballroom of the Blackpool Tower: "Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear", from the poem Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. As the camera pans around the ballroom giving a view of the dancers, a voice-over explains that in Japan, ballroom dancing is treated with suspicion.
Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusho) is a successful salaryman, with a house in the suburbs, a devoted wife, Masako, (Hideko Hara) and a teenage daughter, Chikage ...
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