Shall We Dance? (1996)

1996 • 119 minutes

About this movie

Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together.

Ratings and reviews

It reminded me a LOT of the few anime I've read or watched. I'm not going to comment much on it other than to say it might not be many peoples' cup of tea, but I happen to be a person who enjoys reading subtitles and watching obscure movies if they're entertaining enough and have a good story line. Not to mention, I LOVE dancing. It's a sweet, upbeat, sometimes humorous, relatively unexciting, nice two hour break from the real world. Anyway, I gave it four stars because I enjoyed it, not three because I didn't want to discourage people from watching it (I wouldn't have watched it if it had 3 stars), and not 5 because it's nothing like A Walk To Remember or anything of that breed of amazingness. Haha! One thing I must say, because if I had known this I would have been more free to enjoy the movie and not worry about moral rights and wrongs. (SPOILER ALERT!! (Don't keep reading if you don't want a spoiler)) ...The man never cheats on his wife. The crush on the other lady never amounts to anything more than a mutual understanding and fondness between them.

This movie was so good, so sensible, so beautiful. What's a pity isn't available in Canada

Hands down the best little dance/romance movie out there!