1996 · comedy · drama · dance
Shall We Dance?
Directed by Masayuki Suō2h 16m1996
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.
Our read: Shall We Dance? (1996) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · dance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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How Shall We Dance? feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a gentle Japanese midlife romance that blooms through ballroom dance.”
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