Release Date

June, 14th, 2008

Running Time

116 min

Genre

Drama , Feature

Color

Color

Screening Format

35mm

Screen Size

American Vista (1:1.85)

Sound Processing

-,Dolby SRD

[ Directed by ]

• KUMAZAWA Naoto

[ Cast ]

• HAYASHI Kento ── SAKAI Tomoki
• IKEMATSU Sosuke ── FUJITANI Yoichi
• MIZOBATA Junpei ── OKITSU Shibuki

[ Staff ]

• INOUE Taiichi ── General Producer
• INOUE Fumio ── Exective Producer
• OKADA Kazunori ── Producer
• NAKAMURA Yosuke ── Producer
• MORI Eto ── Original Story
• TODAYAMA Masashi ── Screenplay
• HAYASHI Tamio ── Screenplay
• TOKITA Shintaro ── Music
• OHASHI Takuya ── Theme Song
• SAKO Akira ── Cinematography
• KASE Hiroyuki ── Lighting
• SHIBATA Hirohide ── Art Director
• YOKOMIZO Masatoshi ── Recording
• SHIBASAKI Kenji ── Sound Effect
• ABE Hirohide ── Editor

[ Production Company ]

DIVE!! Film Partners, Kadokawa Pictures, Japan Fiim Fund, NTT DoCoMo, IMJ Entertainment, WOWOW, Yomiuri Shimbun

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

Kadokawa Pictures

[ Production Studio ]

Kadokawa Pictures

[ Story ]

Film adaptation of a best-selling novel, DIVE!, by a Naoki prize winning novelist, Mori Eto, featuring a young spring board diver. Mori herself cooperated in writing the script. Kumazawa Naoto, who won the Best Direction at Porto International Film Festival for Tokyo Noir, strongly expresses the feelings of the youths in the movie.
The diving club, where Sakai Tomoki (Hayashi Kento) attends, brings in a new coach, Asaki Kayoko (Seto Asaka) who has been trained in the U.S., in an attempt to save the club from closure. The training at the club is stepped up in the hope of producing an Olympian, and Tomoki competes for a place with two other members; Fujitani Yoichi (Ikematsu Sosuke), whose father is a former Olympic diver, and Okitsu Shibuki (Mizobata Junpei), who dives from a cliff top into the sea and whose grandfather was a diving genius. Having to practice all hours, Tomoki even loses his girlfriend to his younger brother, but with encouragement from the coach, he returns to the poolside. While searching for their own style of diving, the three contenders press on with their gruelling training regime in the pool as well as on the track. The selection for the Olympics is announced and there is only one place left. At the national Olympic qualifying event, the three dominate the top ranks, and Tomoki gives a satisfying performance.

[ Official Site ]

http://www.dive-movie.jp/

[ Contact (International) ]

KADOKAWA CORPORATION
International Sales, Motion Picture Business
2-13-3 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8177
Rep: NATSUNO Takeshi (President)
Attn: MORI Chiyo
tel: +81 50 1746 1220
E-mail: mori-c@kadokawa.jp
http://www.kadokawa.co.jp