Shall We Dance?

Jan 27, 1996

2h 16m

★ 7.4

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Altamira Pictures

TOHO

Shall We Dance? Trailers

Cast

Shohei Sugiyama

Koji Yakusho

Mai Kishikawa

Tamiyo Kusakari

Tomio Aoki

Naoto Takenaka

Toyoko Takahashi

Eri Watanabe

Detective Miwa

Akira Emoto

Tokichi Hattori

Yuu Tokui

Masahiro Tanaka

Hiromasa Taguchi

Tamako Tamura

Reiko Kusamura

Masako Sugiyama

Hideko Hara

Macho

Hiroshi Miyasaka

Teiji Kaneko

Kunihiko Ida

Hisako Honda

Amie Toujou

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