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Shall We Dance? is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Masayuki Suo released in USA on 4 july 1997 with Kōji Yakusho
Shall We Dance? (1996)
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Add to a movie listShall We Dance? (Shall we ダンス?, Sharu wi Dansu?) is a 1996 Japanese film. Its title refers to the song, "Shall We Dance?" which comes from Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. It was directed by Masayuki Suo.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Kōji Yakusho
(Shohei Sugiyama)
Tamiyo Kusakari
(Mai Kishikawa)
Naoto Takenaka
(Tomio Aoki)
Masahiro Motoki
(Hiromasa Kimoto)
Eriko Watanabe
(Toyoko Takahashi)
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