2/19 minutes

Host: Ariel

Topic: Shall we dance

Questions:

1. Do you like this movie, why or why not??

2. If you were John, would you go to the dance school? or just forget it?

3. why doesn't John tell her wife about dancing?

4. Do you think John has an crush on Paulina?(even a little)

5. If one day you were in the same situation like John, (feel life is tedious or something like that),what would you do?

6. How do you strike a balance between your job and life?

7. If one day your marriage is in crisis, what would you do to save it?

8. In your view, what is happiness of life?

Related resource:

the comparisons between the Japanese version and the American one

Shall We Dansu, 1996	Shall We Dance, 2004	Comments
Shohei Sugiyama (Kōji Yakusho), an accountant	John Clark (Richard Gere), a lawyer	In the original, Sugiyama's secrecy is partly due to cultural ideas about dancing. In the remake, John's secrecy is because he doesn't want to hurt his wife. He loves her, but feels a need to dance.
Mai Kishikawa (Tamiyo Kusakari)	Paulina (Jennifer Lopez)	In the original, Mai's father is a dance instructor who owns the Kishikawa school. In the remake, Paulina's father is a dry-cleaner.
Tomio Aoki (Naoto Takenaka)	Link Peterson (Stanley Tucci)	In the original, Aoki's shame was based upon cultural fears related to ballroom dancing. In the remake, Link's shame was based upon cultural fears which connect dancing with homosexuality.
Toyoko Takahashi (Eriko Watanabe)	Bobbie (Lisa Ann Walter)	There is not much of a difference between the original and the remake. Bobbie is actually very much the American version of the loud dance addict Toyoko.
Tokichi Hattori (Yū Tokui)	Chic (Bobby Cannavale)	In the original, Hattori is a proud and self-proclaimed dance enthusiast who wanted to please his wife, who herself is into ballroom dancing. In the remake, Chic wanted to dance to pick up women but later found out otherwise.
Masahiro Tanaka (Hiromasa Taguchi)	Vern (Omar Benson Miller)	In the original, Tanaka did not begin with a girlfriend. In the remake, Vern states that he wants to learn to dance to impress his fiance.
Tamako Tamura (Reiko Kusamura)	Miss Mitzi (Anita Gillette)	In the original Tamako was a senior instructor. In the remake, Miss Mitzi is the owner of the school.
Masako Sugiyama (Hideko Hara)	Beverly Clark (Susan Sarandon)	In the original, Masako is the typical devoted and soft-spoken wife of a Japanese salary man. The remake made sure that Beverly Clark would be the typical working mom that American audiences would relate to and with much sympathy for her romanticism.