i approach this film with low expectation but be very pleasantly surprise . it be very well do and it beat hand down the ballroom dance movie of recent year and especially strictly ballroom . while the music be nice and the dancing colourful and for me the movie be not about dance . it be about the very japanese institution that give male office worker long commute to work and free time after work for entertainment that do not involve their family . here we have the man with the complete family and the large mortgage and a flagging zest for life . he be draw to the attractive image of a young woman in a dance studio he pass during his commute and this lead him to try ballroom dancing . also japanese be the fact that the lecherous motif that initiate his new passion be make plain but somehow accept and at least eventually and by family and audience . attitude to ballroom dancing and a convey in the film and be definitely non western and though the discipline and the music be clearly cultural import to japan . the cultural contrast be thus intrigue . even without the cultural insight and the colour and the dance and the enthusiasm of the player all make this a fun film to watch .