{"id":610204,"date":"2026-07-29T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610204\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:07:08","slug":"ha-chan-shake-your-booty-trailer-japanese-ballroom-dancing-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610204\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty’ Trailer: Japanese Ballroom Dancing Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sundance Film<\/a> Festival built its reputation on consistently delivering something cinephiles weren\u2019t expecting. This year, one of its more unexpected swerves was the breakout hit \u201cHa-Chan, Shake Your Booty!\u201d <\/p>\n

The whimsical film<\/a> stars Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi<\/a> as a passionate participant in Tokyo\u2019s ballroom dance competitions who returns to the studio after her husband and dance partner\u2019s death. She begins a new romance with a sexy dance teacher, leading to a crowd-pleasing meditation on what it means to love and grieve. And thanks to an acquisition by Sony Pictures Classics<\/a>, the film is heading to theaters this fall.<\/p>\n

An official synopsis for \u201cHa-Chan, Shake Your Booty!\u201d reads: Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo\u2019s ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she becomes infatuated with the new instructor. She must face what comes next as sparks fly.<\/p>\n

\"'Pinocchio:<\/a> \"Penélope<\/a> <\/p>\n

In addition to Kikuchi, the film also stars Alberto Guerra and Alejandro Edda. Josef Kubota Wladyka directs a script he co-wrote with Nicholas Huynh. <\/p>\n

Following the film\u2019s premiere, many critics praised it for both a joyful depiction of Tokyo\u2019s ballroom dance scene and its ability to supplement its joyful romantic swings with pathos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat Haru is even back in the dance studio is a win, and the bonus delight of Fedir only adds to her sense that, hey, maybe this grief thing\u00a0can\u00a0be overcome. Or, can it? As Haru embarks on a zippy, funny, fizzy, and eventually unnerving pursuit of Fedir, it\u2019s only natural that darker emotions continue to surface,\u201d IndieWire\u2019s Kate Erbland wrote in her Sundance review<\/a>. \u201cMany of them are beaten back by wondrous and fantastical dance sequences (Haru and Fedir at the center of all of them,\u00a0a \u2018Dirty Dancing\u2019 riff of particular pleasure), though increasingly wacky plot movements nearly derail the film and our understanding of Haru\u2019s spirit and heart. Still, grief\u00a0is messy, and Haru\u2019s attempts to work through it (even if she doesn\u2019t know that\u2019s what she\u2019s doing) are innately human. That alone recommends the film, which is not as light on its feet as it might aspire to be, and is better and richer for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sony Pictures Classics will release \u201cHa-Chan, Shake Your Booty!\u201d in theaters on Friday, September 25. Watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sundance Film Festival built its reputation on consistently delivering something cinephiles weren\u2019t expecting. This year, one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,597,240132,19,17,327,257682,1983],"class_list":["post-610204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ha-chan-shake-your-booty","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-rinko-kikuchi","tag-trailers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}