Waterboys

Sep 15, 2001

1h 30m

★ 6.6

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Altamira Pictures

TOHO

dentsu

Fuji Television Network

Waterboys Trailers

Cast

Suzuki

Satoshi Tsumabuki

Sato

Hiroshi Tamaki

Isomura

Naoto Takenaka

Kanazawa

Koen Kondo

Saotome

Takatoshi Kaneko

Ohta

Akifumi Miura

Shizuko Kiuchi

Aya Hirayama

Mrs. Sakuma

Kaori Manabe

Ikeuchi

Takashi Kawamura

Mochizuki

Hiroshi Matsunaga

Sakamoto

Yûya Nishikawa

Yama-chan

Katsuyuki Yamazaki

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