Akihiko is a quiet high school boy in love with the idea of being in love. His friend lures him into the girl's locker room, where he gets trapped when four beauties, Komugi, Mishio, Namie and Natsumi come back from gym class. He overhears their plan to work at a beach-side yakisoba stand, and then applies for a job there himself. Neither the girls nor the brusque Kosuke take kindly to Akihiko stepping into their lives, but forced to work together they slowly get to know each other, and become friends.
Yoshikazu Okada is the screenwriter here, and he'd just started in on Beach Boys, and this touches on some of the same themes: strangers becoming friends and the appeal of life near the sea. The actor, Yoshinori Okada does an excellent job portraying our browbeaten hero, so eager to be liked. Yoshihiko Hakamada also brings just the right degree of snark to his role as the manager of the cafe. Sayaka Yamaguchi probably was the strongest of the actresses, all quite young, but later Akiko Yada and Asami Mizukawa(the friend of the boy who almost drowns) would go on to become stars in their own right.
Yoshikazu Okada is the screenwriter here, and he'd just started in on Beach Boys, and this touches on some of the same themes: strangers becoming friends and the appeal of life near the sea. The actor, Yoshinori Okada does an excellent job portraying our browbeaten hero, so eager to be liked. Yoshihiko Hakamada also brings just the right degree of snark to his role as the manager of the cafe. Sayaka Yamaguchi probably was the strongest of the actresses, all quite young, but later Akiko Yada and Asami Mizukawa(the friend of the boy who almost drowns) would go on to become stars in their own right.