Director Josef Kubota Wladyka’s bombastic multi-lingual romance concerns Haru (Academy Award Nominee Rinko Kikuchi), a Tokyo ballroom dancer who withdraws into isolation after tragedy strikes and she loses her partner Luis (Alejandro Edda). When friends coax her back to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor (Alberto Guerra). Haru must learn how to balance her grief against her newfound feelings while continuing to devote herself to dance.
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Opens September 25
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"Josef Kubota Wladyka’s third feature film is a playful and whimsical confection, a deft blend of escapist kitsch and the real emotional heft that Kikuchi brings to the role."
"Josef Kubota Wladyka... shifts from poignant emotion to comedy to surreal scenes that take us inside Haru’s fantasies just as gracefully as the dialogue shifts from Japanese to Spanish and English."
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