Masayuki suôs loved Romantic comedy “Shall we dance?“Finally gets a proper American release. 1996 Feature Stars Oscar -Nominated Kôji Yakusho In one of his breakout roles as a poison accountant who is drunk by the world by competitive bal balks dance. Yakusho last led “perfect days.”
The official summary of “should we dance?” Reads: “Shohei Sugiyama (Yakusho) seems to have everything-a high paying job as an accountant, a beautiful home, a caring wife and a spotting daughter he loves dear. Dance.”
Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe, Yû Tokui, Hiromasa Taguchi, Reiko Kusamura and Hideko Hara also play.
The Japanese film was released in the United States without 18 minutes after its original cut. Author/director Suô told indifire In 1997, the distributor Miramax advised him that an international film would not appeal to American audiences if Runtime was too long. “I was told that subtitles foreign films that take more than two hours is a message to the audience that they do not need to come,” Suô said at that time. “So in
Order to fit into this requirement, we cut it 18 minutes. “While Suô quoted that some of the cut scenes were” repetitive “, they also had” the influence of Ozu (it) the most. “The story was also changed for the US edition.
Now the film movement is releasing a new 4K restoration of the original, 136-minute film, which is available for the first time in North America. The restoration is 17 minutes longer than the Miramax version.
“Should he dance?” Produced by Shôji Masui and Yûji Ogata, with Kazuhiro Igarashi, Tetsuya Ikea, Hiroyuki Katô, Shigeru Ohno, Yasuyoshi Tokuma and Seiji Urushido Executive Producing.
Like suô earlier told indifire In 1997 he took Ballroom Dancing lessons to write the film and later decided how to film the stage sequences. “The impression I had in the beginning was completely different from when I had actually danced,” he said. “The audience, who sits in the theater, does not dance with the characters, so my challenge was how to make them feel as if they were. I thought of many ways to shoot the dance. We made a large record, 2 meters in diameter and put wheels with turns on the bottom and the assistants moved it around. It made all the dance scenes very lively.”
“Shall we dance?” Premiere at Film Forum May 30 in NYC before going wide to additional markets from film movement. Check out the trailer below.
