| Waterboys | |
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 Japanese DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Produced by | Yoshino Sasaki Daisuke Sekiguchi Akifumi Takuma |
| Written by | Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Music by | Gakuji Matsuda Hitomi Shimizu |
| Cinematography | Yuichi Nagata Shinobu Yaguchi |
| Editing by | Ryuji Miyajima |
| Released | September 7, 2001 (Toronto Film Festival) |
| Running time | 91 min. |
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Waterboys (ウォーターボーイズ) is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Shinobu Yaguchi.
Plot[]
A new attractive young swim teacher inspires dozens of boys to join the swim team, unaware that she actually teaches synchronized swimming. When she goes on maternity leave, all but five students quit the class. In need of a new teacher they find a dolphin instructor and ask for help. He agrees, but only as a means to get them to work for him for free. When he finally decides to ditch them he tells them to practice their synchronization by playing Dance Dance Revolution for a while. His advice unexpectedly works, however, and when he returns he sees they're actually doing well and continues his training in earnest. Eventually a camera crew spots them practicing and, thinking they're all drowning, capture footage which makes it on TV. Because of the publicity, the former members all rejoin the team and the original five members teach them synchronized swimming.
Cast[]
- Satoshi Tsumabuki ... Suzuki
- Hiroshi Tamaki ... Sato
- Akifumi Miura ... Ohta
- Koen Kondo ... Kanazawa
- Takatoshi Kaneko ... Saotome
- Aya Hirayama ... Shizuko Kiuchi
- Kaori Manabe ... Mrs. Sakuma
- Takashi Kawamura ... Ikeuchi
- Hiroshi Matsunaga ... Mochizuki
- Yuya Nishikawa ... Sakamoto
- Katsuyuki Yamazaki ... Yama-chan
- Taiyo Sugiura ... Taiyo
- Koutarou Tanaka ... Koutarou
- Makoto Ishihara ... Makoto
- Naoshi Saito ... Naoshi
- Eiki Kitamura ... Eiki
- Chikara Yamamoto ... Chikara
- Masateru Moromoto ... Mori
- Yasushige Kanehara ... Kin-chan
- Hiroki Hoshino ... Hoshino
- Yuji Suzuki ... Yuji
- Raji Saito ... Rajio
- Kazumasa Kotaka ... Kotaka
- Tomoaki Kageyama ... Kage
- Masataka Nishino ... Masa
- Masaru Hirata ... Masao
- Kazuki Yamamoto ... Kazu
- Takashi ... Takashi
- Hirotaka Maeda ... Maeda
- Yosuke Ishii ... Yo-chan
- Rio Akisada ... Yayoi
- Eiji Moriyama ... Yoshida
- Naoto Takenaka ... The Dolphin Trainer
- Tetta Sugimoto ... Mr. Sugita, the Advisor
- Kei Tani ... Principal of Tadano High School
- Akira Emoto ... Mama-san of Okama Bar
- Lynne Hobday ... Singer
- Yu Tokui
- Miku Ueno
External links[]
- Waterboys review at Beyond Hollywood