Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!

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Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo's ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor.

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A lively exorcism of grief, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! gives its characters a lovely sense of grace while Rinko Kikuchi's winsome performance gives this film its beating heart.

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Stephanie Zacharek

TIME Magazine

1 day ago

The movie is pleasing, if slight, though Kikuchi’s performance is nuanced enough to keep you watching, and to keep you rooting for her.

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Odie Henderson

Boston Globe

2 days ago

3/4

Director Josef Kubota Wladyka creates a raunchy cross between "Truly, Madly, Deeply" and "Shall We Dance" while enveloping the proceedings in a layer of Latin American cinema’s magical realism.

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Tim Grierson

Los Angeles Times

3 days ago

Shake Your Booty! wants its grieving main character to get back out there on the floor, but the movie never finds a consistent rhythm for her to try it.

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

19 min ago

B

This is what used to be called, in my day, a "chick flick." Before you get your hackles up, I mean that in a good way

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Sammie Purcell

Rough Draft Atlanta

2 hrs ago

"Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty" is an odd, delightful little duck of a movie about grief and the healing power of movement...

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Alan Zilberman

Spectrum Culture

5 hrs ago

3/5

There are literal flights of fancy juxtaposed with scenes of bitter pain. Life, like ballroom dance, can be messy that way.

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Khatrina

12 hrs ago

funny and surprisingly heartwarming in how to deal with grief and reclaiming happiness when life is messy

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Lele C

20 hrs ago

If glee, dirty dancing, and center stage had a threesome and produced a comical grieving baby 😳 Movie is better than the cover for sure

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Brian

2 days ago

For music/dance lovers

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Jackson

3 days ago

I really enjoyed this movie and the protagonists character. The dream sequences are awesome. Heart felt and good laughs along the way.

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Dennis

3 days ago

Well written and get story! Superb acting!

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CMH

4 days ago

A lovely independent film in Japanese, set in the Tokyo ballroom dance community, that touches upon the strengths and frailties of life and love. Deals with grief and recovery from loss. Great cast, music. Humorous and touching.

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Josef Kubota Wladyka

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Rinko Kikuchi

Haru

Alberto Guerra

Fedir

Alejandro Edda

Luis

You

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Yô Yoshida

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Synopsis

Haru and Luis love competing in Tokyo's ballroom dance scene, but after tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor.

Director: Josef Kubota Wladyka
Producer: Kimberly Parker Zox, Mao Nagakura, Josef Kubota Wladyka
Screenwriter: Nicholas Huynh, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Nicholas Huynh
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 25, 2026, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $219.7K
Runtime: 2h 2m

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