WATER BOYS (Japan Version) DVD Region 2
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Swimming team member Suzuki (Tsumabuki Satoshi) has a problem: he's the only person on the team. Team membership skyrockets when the school gets a hot new coach, but it turns out she actually teaches synchronized swimming! Persuaded by her beauty, the guys clumsily give the unmanly sport a try, but she soon bails out for maternity leave. Refusing to give up, Suzuki and his remaining four teammates - Sato (Tamaki Hiroshi), Ohta (Miura Akifumi), Kanazawa (Kondo Koen, Ping Pong), and Saotome (Kaneko Takatoshi, Azumi) - enlist a wacky dolphin trainer (Takenaka Naoto, Nodame Cantabile) to be their new teacher!
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| Product Title: | WATER BOYS (Japan Version) 五個撲水的少年 (日本版) 五个扑水的少年 (日本版) ウォーターボーイズ WATER BOYS (Japan Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Tsumabuki Satoshi (Actor) | Yaguchi Shinobu | Tyuji Miyajima 妻夫木聰 (Actor) | 矢口史靖 | 宮島龍治 妻夫木聪 (Actor) | 矢口史靖 | 宫岛龙治 妻夫木聡 (Actor) | 矢口史靖 | 宮島竜治 Tsumabuki Satoshi (Actor) | Yaguchi Shinobu | Tyuji Miyajima |
| Director: | Yaguchi Shinobu 矢口史靖 矢口史靖 矢口史靖 Yaguchi Shinobu |
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| Release Date: | 2002-03-21 |
| Publisher Product Code: | TDV-2640D |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English, Japanese |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | 2 - Japan, Europe, South Africa, Greenland and the Middle East (including Egypt) What is it? |
| Other Information: | 2DVDs |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1001828719 |
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2001年の超話題作!高校最後の熱い夏、僕らは"シンクロ"に青春をかけた!? やる気のない3年の鈴木が唯一の部員という唯野高校水泳部。そんな廃部寸前のクラブに新しく就任した顧問が美人の佐久間先生だったことから、部員は一挙に28人に膨れ上がる。ところが佐久間先生が教えようとしたのは競泳ではなく、なんと"シンクロナイズドスイミング"。それを聞いた途端、殆どの生徒たちは逃げ帰るが、鈴木を含む間の悪い5人だけが残ってしまった。結局成り行きで嫌々シンクロに挑戦することになった鈴木達は、謎のイルカ調教師をコーチに迎えて、汗と涙の猛特訓を開始する…。 映像特典:特典DISC付
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Awards
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Japan Academy Prize 2002
- Picture of the Year Nomination
- Director of the Year Nomination, Yaguchi Shinobu
- Screen Play of the Year Nomination, Yaguchi Shinobu
- Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Nomination, Tsumabuki Satoshi
- Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing Nomination
- Outstanding Achievement in Music Winner
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording Nomination
- Rookie of Year Winner, Tsumabuki Satoshi
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Professional Review of "WATER BOYS (Japan Version)"
This professional review refers to Water Boys Standard Edition (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
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Ninety-one minutes of wet Japanese boys: I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. For those that need further convincing, Waterboys is also piss-funny. It's a simple story, about a boys' high school swim team. Team membership goes from one to fifty when the boys find their new coach is a girl, then back to five when she wants them to do synchronized swimming. Bummer. They'll be called nancies if they succeed, and losers if they don't. If you've ever tried to stay afloat with one leg in the air, you'll know how difficult synchro is. If you haven't, I suggest you try. Then you'll appreciate these boys in their quest, a quest which includes fish-flinging, dolphin fun, a transvestite geisha club, a flaming afro, and of course the main goal of teenage boys: teenage girls. Not all the boys are girl-mad, though: one is a maths geek, another strips down to a g-string to build up some muscle, while a third harbours a secret passion for another. This film is light years ahead of the average teen comedy. There's no moral lessons, no bad guys who get humiliated, and no parents: just five Japanese boys, some fish, some dolphins, and lots of water. 8 very tight speedos out of 10 by Alison Jobling - heroic-cinema.com |
Customer Review of "WATER BOYS (Japan Version)"
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October 9, 2009
This customer review refers to Water Boys (Hong Kong Version)
| The movie is very funny and based on a true story (which happened back in 1986). The end performance is very well done. We got the Hong Kong version, as those are way cheaper and have English subtitles. |
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August 25, 2007
This customer review refers to Water Boys (Hong Kong Version)
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"WaterBoys" is a sweet-natured, enjoyable comedy about a group of high school boys who join together to form a synchronized swimming team that will perform at their school's annual festival. The film is slow to get off the ground, with the opening 20 minutes featuring too much low comedy of pratfalls and slapstick. However, once the boys begin their practices, "WaterBoys" begins to take flight. While the film's premise is outlandish, the interactions among the ensemble cast feel genuine and it is the good nature of the kids that pulls the movie together and gets the viewer rooting for them. "WaterBoys" is a lot of fun for the entire family. I highly recommend it. |
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October 8, 2006
This customer review refers to Water Boys (Hong Kong Version)
it was good
| i didn't know if i wanted to try this movie because i don't understand Japanese at all. but people keep on telling me that it's good and funny and all. i gave in and watched it and had to keep reading the subtitle. not something i like to do but under the circumstances i had to. it was good. it had its funny moments here and there. the lead actor is very young looks like a high school kid as is who is portraying. the swimming was good. |
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January 19, 2006
This customer review refers to Water Boys Standard Edition (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
| This movie was really funny. I had to get it after the first time that i saw it. |
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June 20, 2005
This customer review refers to Water Boys Standard Edition (Japan Version - English Subtitles)
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This is such an awesome movie! Not only was I nearly in tears from laughter the entire time, but once it was over, I had to fight the urge to watch it several more times. You will not be disappointed by this movie, at all, it's a must see! |











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