Shall We Dance?

Shohei Sugiyama is a typically straight-laced Japanese businessmen who, passing by in his commuter train one day, glimpses a beautiful young woman through the window of a dance school. Obsessed with her, Shohei enrolls in the school and meets instructor Mai, who at first mistakes Shohei for a philanderer. To her surprise, however, Shohei is a naturally gifted dancer interested in an artistic partnership only, and Mai begins training with him for a competition. Meanwhile, Shohei becomes familiar with his eccentric fellow students, including one person that Shohei already knows, a co-worker, who shows herself to be a master of rumba.

Shall We Dance played at the 2002 Heartland Film Festival in the Truly Moving Pictures from Around the World Sidebar.