Shall We Dance

[Ian_Lee]

I have watched both the Japanese and US version of "Shall We Dance". And lately I found out there is also a Hong Kong version which is called "Dance of a Dream" (2001) that is starred by Andy Lau and Anita Mui.

In that movie, Lau is the dancing instructor and peformed some great Tango.

Anyway, among these three movies, I found that Richard Gere is the worst and really incapable to show what the film required from that character.

[Lollipop2000]

I've only seen the American version of the film, and I thought it was terrible. I didn't see any point to it. It must have been Gere's bad acting.. lol. Is the storyline almost identical to the Japanese, or have there been many changes?

[Ian_Lee]

The story line of the American and Japanese versions are basically the same except the Japanese dancing instructor is more elegant.

Moreover, there is no such implied sexual seducation as between Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere.

[Gary Soup]

Herb Caen, the late newspaper columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, once had this to say about Richard Gere:

"It's no wonder he became a Buddhist. He knows the sound of one hand clapping."

[Lu]

I saw the American version and it is indeed bad. It might have been a good movie in the Japanese original, but in the American version it becomes only a Jennifer Lopez-vehikel, and she is utterly unconvincing.

Edit: but I like the song from Anna and the King

[tluroc76]

I haven't seen the US version but I did see the original Japanese version. I don't think it was great, not-bad though. J-Lo is a good dance without a doubt, acting....haven't seen any of her films, not going to, either.