Water Boyz

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Erm.. "Day la dai phat thanh phat di tu thu do Ha Noi" ~~
Sao ky zay? ko type duoc tieng Viet!!
Well, ok, i'll talk in English (Japanese also) ^^
This is a Shinobu Yaguchi Film, presented by AltamiraPictures,Inc since 2000/12/25.
Its so sad that till 2005 i had chance to see it, and i keep watching it for 3 times, cuz it's really really funny, and makes me remind of my highschool time ^^

--> Some informations:

Director: Yaguchi Shinobu
Produced by:Altamira Pictures, Akifuma Takuma, Sekiguchi Daisuke
Sales: Pony Canyon Inc.
Scenario: Yaguchi Shinobu
Cast: Tsumabuki Satoshi, Tamaki Hiroshi, Miura Akifumi, Kuen Kondo, Takenaka Naoto
Camera: Nagata Yuichi
Editor: Miyajima Ryuji
Sound: Kori Hiromichu
Music: Matsuda Gakuji
Length: 91'
Price: ¥6300

~NaiYou~
**Synchronised swimming team trained by a dolphin trainer grows into something great despite setbacks and insults. Japanese high-school comedy is an ode to Esther Williams, perseverance and tight swimsuits.
**Things aren't looking good for swimming teaching at the Tadano High School. The pool is not kept clean and the swimming team only has one member, Suzuki. The basketball players are already asking whether they can use the pool for their fishing. Even when a beautiful lady swimming coach arrives at the boys' school with a plan to lead the best synchronised swimming team in the country, only five mediocre swimmers turn up. When she has to take maternity leave almost at once, the swimming team seems doomed. But as belongs in sport films, the team grows under the insults of classmates, the pressure of school exams and the apparent lack of talent. And fortunately, they are supported by a crazy dolphin trainer (Takenaka Naoto, also to be seen in Miike's Agitator) and a group of transvestites. In other words, Waterboys is a comedy to die for. Beautifully photographed, just like the earlier films by Yaguchi (such as Adrenaline Drive), with a wonderful rhythm and a suitable love of the often clumsy teenagers. The grand (swimming) finale is a real ode to Esther Williams films. The story is based on real events, strangely enough. In addition, no one will be surprised to hear that, in a film in which boys walk round as much as possible in small tight swimming trunks, there is a wealth of gay allusions between the lines.
(International Film Festival Rotterdam yori)
Content Review

CAST
*** (Satou)
Tamaki Hiroshi (玉木宏):
He's my fav actor in this funny one :">
Birthday: 14 January 1980
Star Sign: Capricorn
Blood Type: B ( same here hehe)
Height: 180cm
Weight: 63kg
B/W/H: 93 / 75 / 88
Hobbies: Swimming, Volley ball, handball (what is it?!)


*** (Saotome)
Kaneko Takatoshi (金子貴俊):
Although this guy is like a gay, he's still cutie ^^
Birthday: 17 January 1978
Blood type: A
Height: 176cm
Weight: 55kg
B/W/H: 88 / 68 / 90
His homepage (?!?) has a short movie. Let's have a look :">



*** (Suzuki)
Tsumabuki Satoshi (妻夫木聡):
Birthday: 13 December 1980
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Blood Type: O
height: 171cm
Weight: 55kg
B/W/H: 88 / 68 / 83
Of course he is in the right of the pic ^^ The cutie girl is Hirayama Aya (1984). If i'm not wrong, she plays Tomoko in "Swing Girls", another humourous movie for teen of Shinobu Yaguchi. An interesting one should not be missed ;)