Hisashi Yamanaka

After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprised to reunite with his childhood friend Kazumi. After talking about old times, they walk to a place from their childhood called the “Lonely Watering Place” but the two accidentally fall into the water. They quickly crawl out, but suddenly realize that they have switched bodies!

Na década de 1980, um popular escritor de meia-idade visita a vila da sua terra natal à beira-mar. Aqui, ele conhece uma garota que se parece com a mulher que ele amou, e relembra velhas memórias. Por outro lado, ele anda pela cidade com uma garota com uma personalidade ligeiramente excêntrica e conta histórias de partir o coração uma por uma. Uma obra que impressiona pelas belas paisagens e ambiente misterioso de uma cidade à beira-mar.

A lonely high schooler suddenly meets the love of his life out of thin air. Is she a real person or a figment of his imagination?

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.