Shall We Dance?

Name: Shall We Dance?
Director: Masayuki Suō
Released: 1996
Duration: 136 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe, Yû Tokui

1996 · 136 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 11,982 VOTES · DIR. Masayuki Suō

Overview

A bored Japanese accountant sees 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 ballroom dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,198 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:09 Produced by Daiei, NTV Corp. Hakuhodo & Nippon Shuppan

00:07:29 I quit when i was pregnant with you.

00:14:43 Group lessons, please.

00:19:09 you'll get to try them all.

00:22:55 Good exercise, isn't it?

00:26:22 make sure no one's looking.

00:32:58 You know how it is for me at work.

00:38:45 He's seen making strange body movements.

00:42:25 Tamako-sensi called to cancel today's lessons.

00:47:57 I take dancing very seriously.

00:54:14 Is that right?

00:58:52 That's "Joe Blues" over there.

01:03:18 fill you with inspiration?

01:08:36 And I wasn't even dancing.

01:13:14 And dance begins with the dancer's feelings.

01:18:57 It still needs a lot of work.

01:23:52 Toyoko, will you stop that!

01:28:42 The central ballroom...

01:32:46 But to be confronted with it...

01:39:59 They're announcing finalists.

01:45:29 Well done!

01:51:55 I began on a whim.

01:56:09 I wanted to show him up...

02:00:43 As you turn 90 degrees, bring both legs together.

Cast & Characters

Kôji Yakusho Shohei Sugiyama Tamiyo Kusakari Mai Kishikawa Naoto Takenaka Tomio Aoki Eri Watanabe Toyoko Takahashi Yû Tokui Tokichi Hattori Hiromasa Taguchi Masahiro Tanaka Reiko Kusamura Tamako Tamura Hideko Hara Masako Sugiyama Hiroshi Miyasaka Macho Kunihiko Ida Teiji Kaneko

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,198

Dialogue density8.8 lines / min

First line00:00:09

Final line02:00:43

Production Record

DirectorMasayuki Suō

LanguageJapanese

IMDb votes11,982