Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestAzusa Akiyama is top of her class, only daughter of a supermarket manager in Los Angeles. Kouhei Takamoto is her classmate, a rough and tumble guitarist for the band Cherry Boys. One day after school, they crash into each other, and fallen electrical lines cause them to switch bodies.
Acting
Arisa Mizuki sells boyish swagger better than the actual boys.
Costume
Cherry Boys' leather jackets vs. Azusa's prim pleats = visual comedy gold.
Creator
Takashi Ishihara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Takashi Ishihara's only directing credit; he vanished from the industry immediately after.
Shot during Japan's bubble economy collapse, Azusa's 'perfect LA life' reads as bitter irony now.
JP
