Japan Synopsis
ウォーターボーイズ
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.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Waterboys. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Altamira Pictures
The 2000–2002 Japan Window
Waterboys holds position #146 of 226 Japan films in the 2000–2002 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Waterboys premiered alongside 79 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 79 other Japan films in 2001.
The 1369th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
51 audience reviews — more than 64% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (64th percentile) outruns trending popularity (24th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Waterboys, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- swimming · 3
- bathing · 2
- synchronized swimming · 1
- swim team · 1
- high school · 88
- boys' love (bl) · 69
- sports · 59
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,109 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (32nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.4 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Comedy productions specifically: #1,021 of 1,411 (top 72%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Altamira Pictures, TOHO, dentsu, Fuji Television Network |
| Runtime | 1h 30m |
| Release Date | September 15, 2001 |
| IMDb | tt0299213 |