They danced their way into the hearts of a nation.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Yasuko Matsuyuki, Etsushi Toyokawa, Yû Aoi, Shizuyo Yamazaki, Shoko Ikeza, Eri Tokunaga |
| Director |
Sang-il Lee |
| Screenplay | Sang-il Lee, Saisuke Habara |
| Music | Jake Shimoabukuro |
| Cinematography | Hideo Yamamoto |
| Editing | Tsuyoshi Imai |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Made in | 2006 |
| Produced by | Black Diamonds, Cine Quanon |
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Some, moderate |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Some, moderate |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Japanese film with some pathos and mildly disturbing moments but strongly positive image and ethos. |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer  Drags on for much too long. | 5 |  |
| Die Burger Mariana Malan 'n Prent wat roer... 'n inspirerende verhaal. | 10 |  |
| Cape Times Frank Scheck Leaves no clichéd stone unturned. | 10 | |
| iAfrica.com Lauren Scholtz As beautiful as it is brave | 15 |  |
| Mail & Guardian Shaun de Waal | 10 | |
| The Citizen Bruce Dennill It's a warm, funny film that happens to be in Japanese. | 14 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge Exceptional film. | 15 | |
| 24.com Gugu Mkhabela It's ridiculously predictable, standard and melodramatic at times, and is one of those films you forget as soon as the credits roll. | 5 | |
| Metacritic.com 5 critics | 11 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 14 critics | 11 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 287 Netizens Wonderful music, wonderful Japanese comedy is great family entertainment | 14 | |
Average .. 54% | 11 | |