Tenkôsei

Name: Tenkôsei
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1982-04-17
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Satomi Kobayashi, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satô

19821982
1h 53m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Comedy

9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) 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 ... Read all9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) 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 ... Read all9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) 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.

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

460

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

64,988

8,832

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Awards
- 6 wins

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Satomi Kobayashi and Toshinori Omi in Tenkôsei (1982)

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Connections
Remade as Tenkôsei: Sayonara anata (2007)

Soundtracks
Meditation
from "Thaïs"
Composed by Jules Massenet

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10/10

"Freaky Friday" but done right

There have been dozens of incarnations of this story throughout film history. Usually, they hit cliches and rarely stray out of them. It is impossible to not to be a cliche in a well worn story. However, Ôbayashi dives into this cliche head first and focuses on what would really happen to two people who had to swap lives with a senseable script and two amazing young actors.

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