i do not like grade inflation but i just have to give this a 10. i can not think of anything i do not like about it . i saw it last night and wake up today think about it . i be sure that the hollywood remake that someone tell me about and with j lo and richard gear and will be excellent and but this original japanese version from 1996 be so emotional and think provoke for me that i be hard press to think of any way that it could be improve and or it set change to a different culture . a story i find worth watching and and with o fist fight scene or gun go off or anything of the sort . imagine that . all the character seem well develop and . even non primary character have good character development and enjoyable acting and and the casting seem very appropriate . it always hard to find a good movie musical in our day and age and and perhaps this doesn not quite qualify ( there be plenty of learn how to dance and but no singing ) but i really think that gene kelly and others who champion a place for dance in our life would have think so very highly of this film and the role of dance in help to tell a story about a middle age man and successful with a family in japan and look for something . he know not precisely what . to the team of people in japan who contribute to this film and thank you for create and do it .