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Koji Yakusho in Four Films

SHALL WE DANCE?
SHALL WE DANSU?

• Director: Masayuki Suô
• JAPAN / 1996 / DCP / Colour / 137’ / English, Japanese; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Masayuki Suô
• Director of Photography: Naoki Kayano
• Editing: Jun’ichi Kikuchi
• Music: Yoshikazu Suo
• Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe, Akira Emoto, Yuu Tokui, Hiromasa Taguchi, Reiko Kusamura
• Producer: Kazuhiro Igarashi, Hiroyuki Kato, Shôji Masui, Yuji Ogata, Shigeru Ohno, Yasuharu Urushido
• Production Co.: Altamira Pictures, TOHO
• World Sales: Park Circus

1997 Japan Academy Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Lighting, Best Music Score, Best Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Newcomer of the Year
1997 National Board of Review (USA) Top Foreign Language Film

One of the greatest Japanese box office successes, and an international hit that inspired a Hollywood remake of the same name starring Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez, Shall We Dance? is an entertaining, emotional, authentic and simple character study about stepping out of one’s comfort zone. Full of life, elegance, healing, and self-expression that combines romance, comedy, dance, Shall We Dance? follows Shohei Sugiyama (Kôji Yakusho), a typically strait-laced Japanese conventional white collar – married, middle-aged, workaholic accountant. Passing by in his commuter train one day, Shohei glimpses a beautiful young woman through the window of a dance school. His dull life takes a funny turn when he signs up for ballroom dancing lessons to try to meet the mysterious woman.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.