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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Shall We Dance? is a 1996 Japanese film. Its original Japanese title is Shall We Dansu? ) which refers to the song, “Shall We Dance”, played many times in the film, in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I, which is referenced by Tamako Tamura in the film. It may also refer to the earlier 1937 movie “Shall We Dance” starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. 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 enchant thine ear”, from the poem Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare. As the camera pans around the ballroom giving a view of the dancers, a voice-over explains that in Japan, ballroom dancing is treated with suspicion. 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 dancing in a dance studio. This is Mai Kishikawa, (Tamiyo Kusakari), a well known 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. Sugiyama’s life changes once his classes begin. Rather than Mai, his teacher is Tamako Tamura (Reiko Kusamura), who becomes an important mentor to him. He meets his classmates, Tokoichi Hattor… More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1320563