Water Boys | Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi |
Written by Shinobu Yaguchi | Produced by Yoshino Sasaki, Daisuke Sekiguchi, and Akifumi Takuma | With Satoshi Tsumabuki, Hiroshi Tamaki, Akifumi Miura, Koen Kondo, and Takatoshi Kaneko | Released in 2001 in Japan | Japanese, Mandarin Language with English Subtitles
Plot Synopsis:
Water Boys starts with a beautiful new swimming teacher who begins her first day at school at a rural high school. Dozens of boys decide to join the swimming team, but when they realise that she teaches synchronised swimming all but five of them drop out. The teacher soon goes on maternity leave, and for some time the team is on hiatus. However, when Suzuki watches a dolphin show he decides to ask the dolphin trainer to be their coach.
The dolphin trainer exploits them as free labour and has no intention of training them, but the boys nevertheless learn from him. Later, while training in the sea, a camera crew films them, thinking that they are drowning, and the boys appear on TV. Seeing this, the boys who had quitted rejoin the team, and are taught synchronised swimming by the five boys.
After much hard work and training, the synchronised swimming team finally impresses everyone in school in the carnival with their outstanding performance.
While water boys does not feature any gay themes, it does have its share of gay fans due to the many Japanese hunks in the movie.
