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User Rating:
6.4/10   80 votes
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Director:
Kentarô Ôtani
Writers:
Mitsuru Adachi (comic)
Arisa Kaneko (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
26 August 2006 (Japan) more
Genre:
Romance | Sport more
Tagline:
We are the sum of ourselves
Plot:
A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're both on the swim team. | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Sports romance with a little comedy more

Cast

  (in credits order)
Masami Nagasawa ... Ami Ninomiya
Mokomichi Hayami ... Keisuke Yamato
Tsuyoshi Abe ... Hiroki Nakanishi
Takuya Ishida ... Takeshi Ogata
Mai Takahashi ... Reiko Kinoshita
Manami Kurose ... Midori Shoji
Yui Ichikawa ... Kaori Koyanagi
Norito Yashima ... Coach Furuya
Maki Tamaru ... Coach Sakiyama
Yu Tokui ... Isamu Wataru
Yutaka Matsushige ... Ami's father
Eriko Watanabe ... Shigeko Shoji
Ren Mori ... Masaru Kume
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Directed by
Kentarô Ôtani 
 
Writing credits
Mitsuru Adachi (comic)

Arisa Kaneko (screenplay)

Produced by
Osamu Kubota .... producer
Kazunari Yamanaka .... producer
 
Original Music by
Takayuki Hattori 
 
Cinematography by
Nobuyasu Kita 
 
Film Editing by
Takeshi Imai 
 
Production Design by
Yuji Tsuzuki 
 
Sound Department
Hitoshi Tsurumaki .... sound
 

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Additional Details

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Runtime:
Japan:106 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital EX
Filming Locations:
Japan more
Company:
IMJ Entertainment more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
Sports romance with a little comedy, 19 July 2008
6/10
Author: freddyfraud from Canada

A lightweight romance with some funny moments, centred around three years of a university swim team. Ami is training to be a diver. She loves Hiroki who was her family's benefactor. He's young, rich and a champion swimmer. She hates Keisuke who is descended from a rival family (of bakers!!!). Keisuike resents Ami being standoffish, and he's not sure if he can overtake Hiroki on the podium.

"Rough" refers to a rough sketch, which shows the original intention but is filled in with more detail after time. After some major upheavals, Ami decides who she loves, Hiroki regains champion status and Keisuke makes some commitments. All before the final race....

The movie is well done, altho the goal wasn't very ambitious. For all the young bodies in swimsuits, it wasn't trying to be sexy. The focus was on growing up and opening up and (the big sports theme) TRYING. Some comic potential is ignored so as not to overshadow the romance.

At the time of writing this, the IMDb plot says this is a movie about a teenager's descent into a drug-fuelled hell. That's the wrong movie.

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