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Masayuki Suo (周防 正行, Suo Masayuki, born October 29, 1956) is a Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We Dance?.
We speak with Masayuki Suo about Japanese silent films and the concept of benshi, what was the meaning of film as a concept in the silent and the talkies era, recreating the Japan of a hundred years ago, and many other topics.
Masayuki Suô was born on 29 October 1956 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Shall We Dance? (1996), Sumo Do, Sumo Don't (1992) and I Just Didn't Do It (2006).
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Suo Masayuki, Japanese director and screenwriter whose best-known movies address subjects largely unfamiliar to mainstream Japanese audiences. His notable films include Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t (1992), Shall We Dance? (1996), and I Just Didn’t Do it (2006). Learn more about Suo’s life and work.
Jul 11, 1997 · Shall We Dance?: Directed by Masayuki Suô. With Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe. A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
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Jul 11, 1997 · “Shall We Dance?“, written and directed by Masayuki Suo, is the story of a Japanese every(business)man (Koji Yakusho of “ Tampopo ” and recent Palme D’Or, “ Unagi “) looking for a ...
When a programmer from a prestigious fall film festival confided to me that he had passed on Masayuki Suo’s I Just Didn’t Do It sight unseen after a buyer in Cannes forewarned him that the movie was “too Japanese” to appeal to international audiences, I was hardly surprised.
