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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka
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. She must face what comes next as sparks fly. From TMDB
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a 2026 comedy drama romance film, directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka, starring Rinko Kikuchi, Alberto Guerra and Alejandro Edda.
- 94 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy
- posts span Jan 21, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 89% of 65 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "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." Critics broadly praised the film's visual style and its handling of grief. Taylor Gates of Collider called it "the dance party we need," highlighting the film's vibrant color palette and stylish energy. Blake Simons of The Film Stage wrote that the film "feels nothing short of revelatory." Caryn James of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a surprisingly…
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60 of 118 · most liked firstI recorded for a movie! 🍿 So excited to share that I recorded harp for the soundtrack of “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” Premiering tomorrow at Sundance Film Festival 2026! 🎶
neutral · AI labelView post →Last weekend, I wanted to go see Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! and... I did not do that. But it had an influence on my #LastFourWatched! Louisville folks: If you haven't already seen it, Filipiñana is showing at Speed Cinema this weekend. Highly recommend! #LetterboxdFriday
neutral · AI labelView post →I kinda love that both Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother and Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty! are both small films that deal with grief in ways that are far unlike what we typically see on screen.
neutral · AI labelView post →too many upcoming movies i wanna watch - Primetime - Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother - Forgotten Island - Digger - Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
neutral · AI labelView post →First Poster for Sundance Hit 'Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!'.
neutral · AI labelView post →Michelle Monaghan is supposedly at the NY screening of HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY but we have to assume that’s incorrect and this is some sort of fundraiser for her because she lost all of her belongings in a robbery or escaped a hotel fire or something tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/mich...
neutral · AI labelView post →Get ready to hit the dance floor. Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka, “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” won the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Coming to theaters this fall via Sony Pictures Classics.
neutral · AI labelView post →OMG give this to me now. This is giving OG Shall We Dance, Strictly Ballroom, a dash of Priscilla and a pinch of Truly, Madly, Deeply *Grabby hands* #HaChanShakeYourBooty youtu.be/Ik4lJmXgR6U
neutral · AI labelView post →Review of Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! A charming and offbeat film about romance and dance, with a mesmerizing performance by Rinko Kikuchi (Pacific Rim). #FilmSky #Movies movieswithmark.com/ha-chan-shak...
neutral · AI labelView post →Between CAMP MIASMA and HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY the millennial era needle drops have been 🔥!
neutral · AI labelView post →For my latest Sundance dispatch for @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I wrote about three films in the US Dramatic Comp: BEDFORD PARK (good), HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! (solid), and TAKE ME HOME (a slight miss).
neutral · AI labelView post →I completely fell for Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! An increasingly quirky, sensual portrayal of grief through the story of a woman's journey to regain her sense of sexuality, desire, and self-worth in the world of ballroom dance. I never knew what to expect next from it.
positive · AI labelView post →Starting my day with Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty because I'm in a ballroom dance mood lately. Plus when you get a chance to watch Rinko Kikuchi do something , you say yes. #Slippydance
positive · AI labelView post →Heading to TIFF? Add these to your watchlist. Eight films supported by the Sundance Institute are screening in Toronto, including 2026 Festival award winners “Josephine,” “Bedford Park,” and “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” plus “Hoosiers,” a Festival classic. Read more: sndnc.org/4A7giML
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm always down for a spontaneous dance sequence and I love magical realism...but I couldn't get myself fully attached to HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! Rinko Kikuchi is great as a grieving woman who keeps making (somewhat) understandably frustrating choices.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's an unusually strong post-TIFF weekend for Toronto theatres: PRIMETIME, THE STUNT DRIVER, THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE, HA-CHAN SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! are all very worthy of your time, in very different ways. There’s also a Brad Pitt-and-a-dog movie, which I haven’t seen. Go see a movie! Again!
neutral · AI labelView post →7. HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!: What a performance from Rinko Kikuchi! Spellbound by her every move/choice in this movie. An ambitious and, ultimately, very effective mix of heavy drama, comedy and fantasy.
positive · AI labelView post →TIFF notes #2 HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY plays like a weird cross between SHALL WE DANCE and the magic realism of a Latin American movie. Rinko Kikuchi gives a good performance, and the fantasy dance numbers are fun, but the entire third act is suspect as hell. I kinda liked it with reservations.
neutral · AI labelView post →Obviously the first thing I’m going to talk about after seeing Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty is swooning for Alberto Guerra.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty” mentioned!
neutral · AI labelView post →Next up from #Sundance is dramedy Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!: "A surprising, joy-filled crowdpleaser with a limelight-stealing performance from Rinko Kikuchi." www.flickfeast.co.uk/film-festiva...
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty for Tax Purposes!
neutral · AI labelView post →The most surprising #film of #TIFF for me was #HaChanShakeYourBooty! A Brilliant story about Ballroom Dancers in Tokyo after they suffer a tragedy. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this film was EVERYTHING. My #Review is live at #FilmsFatale! #FilmSky www.filmsfatale.com/blog/2026/9/...
positive · AI labelView post →We're gonna need a bigger booty. Sony Classics' HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY couldn't get butts in seats--just $185k in 539 theaters, $343 per.
neutral · AI labelView post →That was far more impressive than the dancing in Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty (which was otherwise delightful)
neutral · AI labelView post →HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! reminded me how much I love dance movies. This, sadly, is not a great one.
negative · AI labelView post →New @cityweekly.bsky.social reviews of this week's theatrical and streaming releases: FORGOTTEN ISLAND; PRIMETIME; HEART OF THE BEAST; THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE; FRANZ; HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!; THE STUNT DRIVER; THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re...
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! from TIFF last week. It's not without its problems, but is still a fun, breezy way to kill 2 hours. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →Rinko Kikuchi is excellent in HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! - a funny, moving film about ballroom dancing, grief, avian spirits, and movie musical sequences. It opens Friday. #FilmSky #MovieSky #FilmCommunity #MovieCommunity
positive · AI labelView post →Also out in the US in a few weeks: if you love drama, you'll adore Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
neutral · AI labelView post →Yesterday I screened Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty on the Sundance Film Festival platform. Really enjoyed it. Rinko Kikuchi is excellent in it.
positive · AI labelView post →Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) wow. sundance was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. haha im lying i didn't go. i watched this shit at my house. i kept asking my brother for wheat thins and he said no. but when he went to bed i stole one. sucker.
negative · AI labelView post →I didn't see any of these Digger bros in the trenches watching Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! with me!
neutral · AI labelView post →Nobody puts Haru in the corner in, least of all Ha-Chan herself, who learns to let go in this stunning metaphor for grief. Read @serenaseghedoni.bsky.social's review of HA-CHAN: SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!, now at the BFI London Film Festival and in US theaters! 🔥 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #HaChanShakeYourBooty
neutral · AI labelView post →@lffstubs.bsky.social LFF Ticket for sale: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! @ Vue West End. Saturday 10 October 14:30 £18 Let me know if you’re interested! #lffstubs #lff
neutral · AI labelView post →The more i sit with it, the more i think Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is my favorite movie of the year, so far. In similar fashion, I already want to rewatch The Weight.
positive · AI labelView post →Saw the movie Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! today It was cute! Definitely recommend if you have the chance ^-^
positive · AI labelView post →We are SEATED for Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty!
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve seen no one on this app talking about how wonderful Ha Chan, Shake Your Booty is. Top ten film of the year, fs.
positive · AI labelView post →Saw “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” today. The movie is just so beautiful & funny & heartbreaking & just… wow. Get your booty to a theater & see it!
positive · AI labelView post →GO SEE IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME AND HA-CHAN SHAKE YOUR BOOTY!
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw the trailer far “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty” and it looks really cool. I will let you know what I thought when I see it eventually 🎬 Happy movie watching ✨
positive · AI labelView post →The feel-good musical Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is such a departure from the director's last film, the grim thriller Catch the Fair One, that I think you should watch them back-to-back just so you can marvel at the skill and varied sensibility involved. My @spectrumculture.bsky.social review.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some movie podcast let me come on and talk about how good She Dances & Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty is, how they're effective at showing how dance affects a person (one from an interior vs. one from an exterior perspective) and why dance is the accessible artform for gen-z.
neutral · AI labelView post →Got margarita and pretzel bites. Seated for Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
neutral · AI labelView post →TIFF may be over, but the movies from that festival is coming to theatres like HA-CHAN: SHAKE YOUR BOOTY. Watch Rikki Kikuchi dance like a goddess on the big screen and read about this #film at @intheseats.bsky.social. intheseats.ca/our-review-o...
neutral · AI labelView post →@bpercival98.bsky.social writes that Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! explores grief in a whimsical, quirky, and hilariously absurd way, thanks to Rinko Kikuchi’s star performance themoviestate.com/2026/09/25/h...
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’ Elevated by Rinko Kikuchi’s Performance | TIFF 2026 Review - by @maxfromquebec.bsky.social #filmsky #moviesky #TIFF thecosmiccircus.com/ha-chan-shak...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026, dir Josef Kubota Wladyka). 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. She must face what comes next as sparks fly. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1596249-ha-chan-shake-your-booty
neutral · AI labelView post →the people who said Primetime was pro pedophilia and the people who were denying that any rape actually happened because part of me thinks they'd overlap and that's fascinating. Was also REALLY hoping to see Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty that weekend, been wanting to see it for...
neutral · AI labelView post →HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY: DOÑA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS meets STRICTLY BALLROOM. It dances to familiar beats at times but there’s an unexpected bite too, a wonderfully chaotic sense of humour and dance numbers sparkling with melancholy. Rinko Kikuchi rules so hard! #LFF
neutral · AI labelView post →@lffstubs.bsky.social One ticket for sale for Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! at 20.30 at the PCC tomorrow, £18
neutral · AI labelView post →FlixChatter Review: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! wp.me/pxXPC-mqD A wonderfully quirky dramedy about the healing power of dance 💃🕺 It really lives up to its vibrant, fun title, I love Rinko Kikuchi in a dramatic, funny and playful role 🌟 #filmsky #moviesky @sonypicturesuk.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Releases - Last chance for HA-CHAN SHAKE YOUR BOOTY at Lightbox, THE STUNT DRIVER at Fox and SACRIFICE at Carlton, YOU HAD TO BE THERE plays again at Lightbox, YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER opens at Lightbox, BEWARE BOIUNA continues at Revue. #toRelease #toRep
neutral · AI labelView post →I need more of my friends to watch Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! so I have someone to talk with about it
positive · AI labelView post →Releases - NAZA and YOU HAD TO BE THERE open plus HA-CHAN SHAKE YOUR BOOTY and DEAR YOU arrive at Lightbox, BEWARE BOIUNA opens at Revue, DIGGER and SACRIFICE open plus FORGOTTEN ISLAND, STUNT DRIVER, HA-CHAN SHAKE YOUR BOOTY and TEENAGE SEX & DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA all continue at Carlton. #toRep
neutral · AI labelView post →Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a well done story centered on grief, and also a nice love letter to dance (and not just ballroom dancing). There's a nice cultural intersectionality between Japanese and Latin (and American to a certain degree) culture. The movie is rich with symbolism (1/2)
positive · AI labelView post →I really enjoyed HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! Movies with Rinko Kikuchi in them should reach North American screens more often. My **** review on @Letterboxd.social: boxd.it/gyl4oR #HaChanShakeYourBooty #filmsky #moviesky #RinkoKikuchi #JosefKubotaWladyka
positive · AI labelView post →I'm aware of all the films you listed except Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! That one looks very interesting! Thanks for sharing. The other films look really fun but they don't interest me enough to be theatre-worthy.
neutral · AI labelView post →165. Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) - I am so drawn to movies about grief. Add in the tiny bits of magical realism and full-on musical segments and this is right up my alley. A bit of the love story does not fully work for me, but Rinko Kukuchi is so compelling that I couldn't help but love her.
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