In both its original Japanese and later American versions the movie, Shall We
Dance? was a big hit. A lonely businessman, trapped in the repetitions of
unfulfilling work, notices a young woman gazing with forlorn sadness from a second
floor dance studio. Desperate for some change in his routine and intrigued by her wistful
solitude, the man uncharacteristically bounds out of his predetermined path and hesitantly
climbs the stairs to the school.
Although he intends merely a one-stop curiosity visit, he ends up joining a class and
