"Shall We Dance?"
1996
Directed by Masayuki Suo

Masayuki Suo's charming comedy about Shohei Sugiyama (Koji Yakusyo), a married, middle-aged, workaholic accountant who becomes obsessed with a sad and beautiful dance instructor (Tamiyo Kusakari) he spies through the window of a dance studio. His dull life takes a funny turn when he signs up for ballroom dancing lessons to try to meet the mysterious woman and instead is assigned a plump, middle-aged instructor. But is the mystery woman, as his instructor warns, "all the sweeter when viewed from afar"? Japanese with English subtitles.
119 minutes.