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15 September 2001 (Japan)
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In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the competition, in spite of the mockeries of the "real sportsmen". | add synopsis
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Happy Flight review
(From Twitch. 2 December 2008, 5:31 AM, PST)
From WATERBOYS To SWING GIRLS to HAPPY FLIGHT! The Teaser For Yaguchi’s Latest Is In The Air …
(From Twitch. 16 September 2008, 8:52 AM, PDT)
(From Twitch. 2 December 2008, 5:31 AM, PST)
From WATERBOYS To SWING GIRLS to HAPPY FLIGHT! The Teaser For Yaguchi’s Latest Is In The Air …
(From Twitch. 16 September 2008, 8:52 AM, PDT)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | |
| Yûya Nishikawa | ... | Sakamoto | |
| Katsuyuki Yamazaki | ... | Yama-chan | |
| Taiyô Sugiura | ... | Taiyô | |
| Koutarou Tanaka | ... | Koutarou | |
| Makoto Ishihara | ... | Makoto | |
| Naoshi Saitô | ... | Naoshi |
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Followed by "Waterboys 2005 Natsu" (2005)
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ONLY YOU
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Waterboys opens with a laugh-out-loud visual gag, and pretty much doesn't let up from then on in. The story is that the high school swim team is all but defunct, perennial loser Suzuki being the last remaining member. When a hot young female teacher arrives and takes charge, the membership swells, only to recede again when she reveals her plans to have them become synchronized swimmers. The remaining five pupils are already battling against the odds when their new-found mentor leaves them in the lurch.
So far, so formulaic, but all this happens in the first two minutes and then Yaguchi lets his characters run the story. Tsumabaki does well as the encumbered team captain, his relationship with a ditsy girlfriend adding light romantic interest. Takenaka Naoto reprises his Shall We Dance OTT routine to great effect as the team's cynical trainer. But this is an ensemble piece, the laughs coming from the direction and choreography as much as the performances. One disastrous training session exceeds funny to become hilarious through the judicious decision to shoot it in slow motion.
The film is quick-paced, and best of all it never takes itself too seriously. Tone-wise, think The Full Monty without the sentimental bits. Suzuki and Hirayama hardly hold hands, never mind kiss, but he needs somebody to react to his triumph at the end.
In short, a very funny film with an uplifting swimfest sequence at the end.