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Wôtâ bôizu (2001)
Male synchro... I just love this movie
I love the characters in this movie. Suzuki's the only guy left on the swim team (because its really that bad). He's on the verge of deciding he's pretty worthless when a few things happen to spice up his life.
A female teacher comes to the all male school to be a swim instructor and the boys come out in drones. Haha funny part is that she didn't know it was an all boys school and she intended to start a synchronized swimming team, but that is unheard of for guys to do it - it's laughable.
So there you have Suzuki, Sato a kid with an afro who claims to have dumped the basketball team to swim, Ohta the one joining the team to get buff, Kanazawa a math nerd that feels the need to learn to swim and stay afloat because of the science in it, and Saotome the guy who has an eye on one of the swim team.
They have a few disasters before actually getting to the synchro performance, you watch the friendships build and good things finally happening for the misfits. It's a really enjoyable funny film.
Gamunui yeonggwang (2002)
A favorite Korean romantic comedy
This movie is one of my favorite Korean romantic comedies. Living in Korea I've gotten to see quite a few. I saw this on TV at first, but it was so amusing that I had to go buy it. Brian Thibodeau has a pretty good synapse of the story. Geek is forced to see more in a gangster princess. It's quite amusing and the language is a bit rough, which I think adds to the humor of the situation Dae-suh finds himself in.
The side bit of the eldest mob brother is pretty ridiculous but without it the movie would lose a lot of appeal and we'd not get to know the characters as well.
I absolutely love it. In my heart I want to give it a really high mark, but I have to be realistic. Unlike western romantic comedies there are no public displays of affection and yet you still get so much out of the film. I'd say it's almost an 8 in my book.. but this is my favorite genre - upbeat with a bit of romance, not too much thought involved for the viewer and the possibility of a happy ending ;)