Waterboys

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Waterboys

2001

1h 30m

6.5(67 votes)

Comedy

Overview

In a Japanese school, 5 adolescent geeks join the new sport teacher and take up the challenge to take part in the synchronised swimming competition, in-spite of the mockeries of the real sportsmen.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Satoshi Tsumabuki

Suzuki

Hiroshi Tamaki

Sato

Naoto Takenaka

Isomura

Koen Kondo

Kanazawa

Takatoshi Kaneko

Saotome

Akifumi Miura

Ohta

Aya Hirayama

Shizuko Kiuchi

Kaori Manabe

Mrs. Sakuma

Takashi Kawamura

Ikeuchi

Hiroshi Matsunaga

Mochizuki

Creative team

Directed by: Shinobu Yaguchi
Written by: Shinobu Yaguchi
Produced by: Akifumi Takuma
Shinobu Yaguchi

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