Shall We Dance%3F (1996 film)

Shall We Dance? Shall we ? , Sharu wi Dansu?? is a 1996 Japanese film. Its title refers to the song, Shall We Dance? which comes from Rodgers and Hammersteins The King and I. It was directed by Masayuki Suo.

Shohei Sugiyama Kji Yakusho is a successful salaryman, with a house in the suburbs, a devoted wife, Masako Hideko Hara, and a teenage daughter, Chikage Ayano Nakamura. He works as an accountant for a firm in Tokyo. Despite these external signs of success, however, Sugiyama begins to feel as if his life has lost direction and meaning and falls into depression.One night, while coming home on the Tokyo Subway, he spots a beautiful woman with a melancholy expression looking out from a window in a dance studio. This is Mai Kishikawa Tamiyo Kusakari, a wellknown figure on the Western ballroom dance circuit. Sugiyama becomes infatuated with her and decides to take lessons in order to get to know her better. ........

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