movie recommendation: Waterboys

'Waterboys' is a Japanese movie that came out a quite few years ago; it had been on tv, channel 18, but I'd never gotten to see it. However, I recently found it on crunchyroll, and it's an amazing movie, :]

Based on a true story, Waterboys is a growing-up comedy of a rag-tag groups of five boys, considered 'losers' at their school, who must put on a synchronized swimming presentation (typically a girls' sports activity) for their school festival by the end of summer. The problem is, only one of them has actually seen a synchronized swimming performance, none of them are synchronized, and one doesn't even know how to swim. Worse yet, they have no teacher: the one who had originally been assigned is pregnant, and the one they end up using is a crotchety old man who works at SeaWorld and whose knowledge of synchronized swimming extends only to dolphins. Watch to see how this situation turns out!

Waterboys (2001), written and directed by Shinobu Yaguchi
via crunchyroll: http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-64319/Water-Boys-Movie-Full-Version.html