Joshikyôei hanrangun (2007)

The new girl at school helps the swim team battle their infected teachers and classmates.

Director:

Kôji Kawano

Writer:

Satoshi Ôwada (screenplay)

Stars:

Sasa Handa, Yuria Hidaka, Ayumu Tokitô

Cast

Credited cast:
Sasa Handa	...	Aki
Yuria Hidaka	...	Sayaka
Ayumu Tokitô	...	Mariko
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mizuka Arai
Hiromitsu Kiba
Hidetomo Nishida
Sakae Yamazaki
Tôshi Yanagi
Kiyo Yoshizawa

Storyline

A girls' high school team is having a competition. Aki persuades her friend Sayaka to join the swimming team. However, a mysterious virus is spreading throughout the school. After Aki discovers the incident and tries to tell other people, she is killed. The swimming team takes up the challenge to cope with it and begins the fierce battle.

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Plot Keywords:

schoolgirl | asian horror | japanese horror | japanese horror film | virus | 

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Genres:

Action | Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

9 December 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Attack Girls Swim Team vs the Unliving Dead

Company Credits

Production Co:

Filmworks Movie King, GP Museum Soft

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows Zonbi jieitai (2006)

User Reviews

Memorable for all the wrong reasons

I'm kind of ashamed to be writing this because it means I took the time to watch it. And it gets worse when you realize I'm taking more time to comment on it. Oh well, can't say you weren't warned. If the other reviews didn't slap some sense into you and cause you watch something useful like CITIZEN KANE or porn, then I've no sympathy for you. Normally, I would express my admiration of the nudity, attractive girls, gore, overall trashiness, nudity, callous and gleeful disdain of reality and nudity that a movie with a title of ATTACK GIRLS' SWIM TEAM might engender. Except... this movie may possess such attributes, but it's not done very well. An equivalent effect might be that of watching your parents dry-humping while talking dirty to each other (or so I'd assume- I've no experience to draw from, readers feel free to correct me at your leisure). You can't really discuss plot or characterization, except to say that the aforementioned undead or zombies don't appear until far too late and when they do, there's only about four or five. And they're in an all too brief scene of bloodletting... okay I'm bored with the zombies... but there is nudity! And a faux lesbian scene with incestuous undertones which would be worth a quick fast-forward to... but really, once that's done, it's a pretty dreary affair. The idea of 'so bad it's good' is always a dicey proposition to a viewer, but it never reaches the outlandish depths non-quality needs to be entertaining. It's just bad. It can't even muster the necessary 'movie magic' required to make you believe the whole production wasn't shot at an abandoned building with a couple of non-professionals on their lunch hour. And for all the hype of the title, the 'Swim Team' doesn't form until way too late and it then doesn't even do that much. Blaming this as an amateur effort seems overly cruel and is inaccurate- amateurs are at least striving. This thing is lazy. Kids, don't waste your time. Find something else. You're reading this on the internet. Something better is a click away.