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.
MusicComedyDramaRomancedance lessonprivate detectivedance schoolaccountantdance studioinspirationalintimateheiseisalarymanappreciative
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Character
Classical in form, contemporary, spare and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
Who loves it, who doesn't
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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Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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Butterfly Soup 201775% alikeGame · Both contemporary, classical in form, spare.
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