Waterboys

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Movie: Waterboys
Japanese: ウォーターボーイズ
Director: Shinobu Yaguchi
Writer: Shinobu Yaguchi, Yasushi Fukuda
Producer: Yoshino Sasaki, Daisuke Sekiguchi, Akifumi Takuma
Cinematographer: Yuichi Nagata, Shinobu Yaguchi
Assistant Director: Shozo Katashima
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: Teen-Comedy / Sports / Competition
Production Company: Fuji TV, Toho, Altamira Pictures, DENTSU Music And Entertainment
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Notes

Based on a true story - members of the swimming team at Kawagoe High School, a boy's prep school in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, dreamed up an unusual event for their school festival: "men's synchronized swimming." Inspired by the popular Olympic synchronized swimming exhibitions on TV, the young men choreographed and successfully performed their own synchronized swimming event.
Related titles:
1. Waterboys (2001)
2. Water Boys (Fuji TV / 2003)
3. Water Boys 2 (Fuji TV / 2004)
4. Water Boys 2005 Summer (Fuji TV / 2005)

Cast

Satoshi Tsumabuki - Suzuki
Hiroshi Tamaki - Sato
Akifumi Miura - Ohta
Koen Kondo - Kanazawa
Takatoshi Kaneko - Saotome
Aya Hirayama - Kiuchi, Shizuko
Kaori Manabe - Mrs. Sakuma
Takashi Kawamura - Ikeuchi
Daishi Matsunaga - Hiroshi Mochizuki
Yuya Nishikawa - Sakamoto
Katsuyuki Yamazaki - Yama-chan
Taiyo Sugiura - Taiyo
Koutaro Tanaka - Koutarou
Makoto Ishihara - Makoto
Naoshi Saito - Naoshi
Eiji Moriyama - Yoshida
Kei Tani - Principal of Tadano High School
Yu Tokui
Yosuke Ishii
Daisuke Honda
Taro Iwate - man at scene of fire
Miku Ueno - Kobayashi

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Awards

2002 (25th) Japan Academy Prize - March 8, 2002
- "Outstanding Achievement in Music" (Gakuji Matsuda, Hitomi Shimizu)
- "Rookie of the Year" (Satoshi Tsumabuki)

Comments

masked_alice Jan 10 2010 8:44 am i loved it!!! sooooooo funny. i had to catch my breath many times from laughing so much. satoshi was indeed very cute, i've loved him since watching orange days and hiroshi tamaki was well in the dorama, i don't usually like him but here he was pretty funny, they all were. one of the funniest japanese movies i've watched=) their swimsuits were so strange to me, they were definitely to thin on the side so i kept laughing at them for it:)

mitzmin Dec 17 2009 6:36 am This is one of the best jmovies I have eveer watched!! Satoshi is sooo cute and hiroshi tamaki, well I didn't like him much, but when I watched waterboys I loved hiimm.

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