{{No plot|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox film | name = Oppai Volleyball | image = Oppai_Volleyball_film_Theatrical_release_poster_(2009-2).jpg | alt = | caption = | native_name = {{Infobox Japanese | kanji = おっぱいバレー | revhep = Oppai Barē}} | director = Eiichirō Hasumi | producer = Toru Horikoshi<br/>Ryuhei Chiba<br/>Shuji Abe<br/>Shigeyuki Endo<br/>Yoshitaka Hori<br/>Shinichiro Nishigaki<br/>Fumihiro Hirai | writer = Yoshikazu Okada<br/>Munenori Mizuno | screenplay = | story = | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | starring = {{Plain list| * Haruka Ayase * Munetaka Aoki * Tōru Nakamura * Hiromasa Taguchi * Takuya Ishida * Suzuka Ohgo * Ken Mitsuishi }} | cinematography = Hiromitsu Nishimura | editing = | studio = Warner Bros. Pictures | distributor = Toei Company | released = {{Film date|2009|4|18|Japan}} | runtime = 102 minutes | country = Japan | language = Japanese | budget = | gross = }}

{{Nihongo|'''''Oppai Volleyball'''''|おっぱいバレー|Oppai Barē}} is a 2009 Japanese comedy film directed by Eiichirō Hasumi and starring Haruka Ayase, Suzuka Ohgo and Tōru Nakamura. It was written by Yoshikazu Okada and Munenori Mizuno, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and distributed by Toei Company.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://eiga.com/movie/53932/|title=おっぱいバレー|accessdate= August 6, 2017|website=Eiga|language= Japanese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0006671|title=おっぱいバレー|accessdate= August 6, 2017|website=Cinama Today|language=Japanese}}</ref>

==Cast==

* Haruka Ayase as Mikako Terashima * Suzuka Ohgo as young Mikako * Munetaka Aoki as Kazuki Jo * Tōru Nakamura as Kenji Horiuchi (as Toru Nakamura) * Takuya Ishida as volleyball senior * Hiromasa Taguchi as Ryuo (volleyball coach) * Ken Mitsuishi as head coach

==Reception== In the ''Taipei Times'' Ian Bartholomew wrote: "''Oppai Volleyball'' is a rather innocent little piece of cinema, a junior high school version of ''National Lampoon'' with an inspirational message at the end.&nbsp;... The potentially serious moral implications of the contract between the teacher and her students is at no point regarded as being of the slightest interest, which is in many ways a blessing, leaving ''Oppai Volleyball'' as an innocuous piece of inconsequential fluff with no aspirations to be anything else.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2009/07/24/2003449434|title=FILM REVIEW: Boys will be boys|date=July 24, 2009|website=Taipei Times|accessdate=August 6, 2017}}</ref>

In the ''South China Morning Post'', Clarence Tsui wrote: "Despite its title – oppai is Japanese for breasts – what's most remarkable about Eiichiro Hasumi's film is how mundane it is.&nbsp;... While it's easy to take aim at the mild chauvinism that drives the humour of the story&nbsp;... ''Volleyball'' is perhaps more troubling for being a pedestrian exemplar of that dated genre known as the high-school rite-of-passage drama. The transformation of the students is just too easy: the weaklings become able players with just a few weeks of training, and their sweaty teenage sexuality (they're seen peeping into female changing rooms at the start and drooling over Mikako's physique as she does stretching exercises) is too easily shed to reveal a glowing humanity within. A subplot explaining Mikako's dedication to teaching adds tear-jerking drama and only serves to highlight the emotional manipulation that sours the whole undertaking."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tsui |first=Clarence |author-link=Clarence Tsui |date=2 July 2009 |title=Oppai Volleyball |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/685570/oppai-volleyball |access-date=6 December 2025 |website=South China Morning Post}}</ref>

Christie Barber of Macquarie University wrote: "''Oppai Volleyball'' works to disrupt established ideas about masculinity, as competence in volleyball does not determine the team members’ sense of self-worth, or acceptance by peers.&nbsp;... [The] depictions of dominant and subordinated masculinities in the film seem to function in two ways. First, they offer fictive representations of the hierarchies that exist within masculinities in the actual lives of viewers, and thus highlight the tensions and pressures involved in forming masculine subjectivity. Second, they highlight what some consider to be an out-dated and ineffective coaching methodology, said to be based on traditional values."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Barber |first=Christie |date=17 Jun 2014 |title=Masculinity in Japanese Sports Films |url=https://www-tandfonline-com.manchester.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/10371397.2014.928586#d1e76 |journal=Japanese Studies |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=135–152}}</ref>

== Accolades == Haruka Ayase won the 52nd Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress for her role in the film.<ref>{{cite web |title=ブルーリボン賞 |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/awardmain.php?num_a=1540 |accessdate=August 6, 2017 |website=All Cinema}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|1399210|Oppai Volleyball}}

{{Eiichirō Hasumi}}

Category:Films directed by Eiichirō Hasumi Category:Films scored by Naoki Satō Category:Warner Bros. films