Shall We Dance Facts, Trivia, Actors, Actresses, and Composers

Shall We Dance? is a 1996 award - winning Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is Shall We Dansu? which refers to the earlier 1934 movie "Shall We Dance" starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. It may also refer to the song, "Shall We Dance" in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. It was directed by Masayuki Suo. A 2004 film, also called Shall We Dance? is an American remake of the film. It stars Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, and Jennifer Lopez. The film begins with a close-up of the inscription above the stage in the ballroom of the Blackpool Tower: "Bid me discourse, I will...
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quick facts

Release date:	January 27, 1996
Directed by:	Masayuki Suo
Rated:
Runtime:	136 Minutes
Producer:	Tatsuya Ikeda, Shoji Masui, Yuji Ogata, Kazuhiro Igarashi, Hiroyuki Kato, Shigeru Ohno, Yasuharu Urushido
Editor:	Junichi Kikuchi
Music by:	Yoshikazu Suo
Cinematography:	Naoki Kayano
Screenplay by:	Masayuki Suo
Genre:	Comedy

Award-winners from Shall We Dance

Tamiyo Kusakari

Character:Mai Kishikawa

Born:May 10, 1965

Eri Watanabe

Character:Toyoko Takahashi

Born:January 5, 1955

Naoto Takenaka

Character:Tomio Aoki

Born:March 20, 1956

Cast of Shall We Dance

Akira Emoto

Born:November 3, 1948

Age:63

Koji Yakusho

Shohei Sugiyama

Born:January 1, 1956

Age:56

Koichi Ueda

Torakichi Kumada

Born:April 2, 1941

Age:71

Hiromasa Taguchi

Masahiro Tanaka

Reiko Kusamura

Tamako Tamura

Born:July 5, 1940

Age:71

Kunihiko Ida

Teiji Kaneko

Honors and Awards

Year	Award Won
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Masayuki Suo
1997	National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Masayuki Suo
1998	Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Miramax Films
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Kyôko Heya
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography, Naoki Kayano
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Music, Yoshikazu Suo
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Eri Watanabe
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Naoto Takenaka
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Lighting Direction, Tatsuya Osada
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording, Kiyoshi Yoneyama
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing, Junichi Kikuchi
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Rookie of the Year, Tamiyo Kusakari
1997	BFCA Critics' Choice Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Masayuki Suo
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
1996	Mainichi Eiga Concours Award for Best Film, Masayuki Suo

Year	Award Nomination
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Tamiyo Kusakari
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Reiko Kusamura
1998	Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Miramax Films
1997	Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Kyôko Heya

Film director of Shall We Dance

Masayuki Suo

Born: October 29, 1956

Age: 55

Masayuki Suo is a Japanese film director. He is perhaps best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?. According to Suo: In 1982, along with filmmakers Yoshiho Fukuoka, Itsumichi Isomura, Toshiyuki Mizutani and Akira Yoneda, Suo...
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Title	Released	Genre
I Just Didn't Do It	2007
Shall We Dance	1996	Comedy
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't	1992	Comedy
Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride	1984

Filming locations for Shall We Dance

Blackpool

Blackpool /ˈblækpuːl/ is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, 17.5 miles northwest of Preston, 27 miles north of Liverpool, 30...
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Japan

Japan /dʒəˈpæn/ is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters...
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Frequently Asked Questions

Q:
Who directed the motion picture "Shall We Dance"?
A:
Masayuki Suo was the director of the motion picture.
Q:
Who starred in the film, "Shall We Dance"?
A:
Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka and Shimizu Misa played a role in the movie.
Q:
How many minutes is the runtime of the motion picture "Shall We Dance"?
A:
The approxomite runtime is 136 minutes.
Q:
What is the runtime of the movie "Shall We Dance"?
A:
The runtime is 136 minutes.
Q:
When did the motion picture "Shall We Dance" premier?
A:
The movie was released in January, 1996.
Q:
Who was the writer for the movie Shall We Dance?
A:
Masayuki Suo wrote the script for the movie.
Q:
Who distributed the movie, "Shall We Dance"?
A:
Miramax Films was the film's distributor.

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