

She's got the moves… but he's got two left feet!
A bored accountant spots 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 dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
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Character
Classical in form, contemporary, spare and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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1 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Cast
- Koji YakushoShohei Sugiyama
- Tamiyo KusakariMai Kishikawa
- Naoto TakenakaTomio Aoki
- Eri WatanabeToyoko Takahashi
- Akira EmotoDetective Miwa
- Yuu TokuiTokichi Hattori
- Hiromasa TaguchiMasahiro Tanaka
- Reiko KusamuraTamako Tamura
- Hideko HaraMasako Sugiyama
- Hiroshi MiyasakaMacho
Crew
- Masayuki SuōDirector
- Masayuki SuōScreenplay
- Naoki KayanoDirector of Photography
- Yoshikazu SuoOriginal Music Composer
- Hani MituhashiEditor
- Yuji OgataProducer
- Shoji MasuiProducer
- Yasuharu UrushidoProducer
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