Water Boys ...... again .....

[Byron]

Yep, I agree.
Btw, didn't know where to post this but as we were talking about bikes.............
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb...r6lmo1_500.jpg

[Torchwatch]

I have reached Water Boys (season) 2, 2004.
This I think is my favourite Water Boys TV season.
Join me on :

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqa...-boys-2-01_fun

Hate how dailymotion is full of annoying adverts.

I notice how even in 2011 there were still Water Boys shows taking place in Japanese schools.

[Byron]

DM is frequently a pain in the ass for me too - they keep you waiting for ages and the vid. has just broken down this time and I have to reopen it.
Btw, as these are amazing productions on such a scale are there enough pupils from only one school to create the effects - or do they join with others for filming?

[Torchwatch]

The movie and the 3 TV seasons are all done with actors.
They seem to take over a "closed" school during the summer holidays and make the whole thing in the time available.
The young actors start each project as able to swim, act and perhaps dance a bit and are trained in synchro from scratch during the season.
There are assorted bits of behind the scenes video on dailymotion etc. You can see them getting hypothermic during cold training sessions and hurt while learning how to build a human pyramid. You see them as the people they are not as the characters they portray in the stories.
It is interesting to watch the actors grow and mature during the course of each story, it is visible from episode to episode.

Remember that at the time the original movie was made Japan had gone through a period of bullying in schools initiated by teachers, carried on by students and resulting in the suicide of several children. Water Boys was an attempt to do something positive for the losers and drop outs who the system were failing, hence the drive for happy memories and no regrets.

[Byron]

Didn't know that - perhaps the nasty side of Japanese culture still survives?
The empire was after all isolated from the civilised world for hundreds of years and
it reminds me how they despised Singapore PoWs of WWII who should have committed hari kari and were thereafter treated so inhumanely.

[wanderinglust]

Hello
There is a group called INDIGO BLUE who post a lot of nice speedo photos like water boys...

[Torchwatch]

Have completed Water Boys 2 (2004).
Seen the first part of Water Boys Summer 2005 but cannot find the rest.

I could buy it on Ebay but suspect that the DVD's are for the USA market and will not work in the UK.

Has anyone any ideas?