Yes, I Can't Swim

Yes, I Can't Swim

2022 · 113 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama

Yuji Takanashi is a university philosophy professor who can't swim. Making awkward justifications to himself about the relationship between water and people, still he decides on the spur of the moment to enroll in a swimming class. There he encounters the teacher Shizuka Usuhara, who ignores his last-minute hesitation and enrolls him.

Directed by Kensaku Watanabe · Written by Kensaku Watanabe

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