Summer Vacation 1999
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- Movie: Summer Vacation 1999 / Summer of 1999
- Romaji: 1999 - Nen no natsu yasumi
- Japanese: １９９９年の夏休み
- Director: Shusuke Kaneko
- Writer: Rio Kishida, Moto Hagio
- Producer: Naoya Narita, Yutaka Okada
- Cinematographer: Kenji Takama
- Release Date: March 26, 1988
- Runtime: 90 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend their days in the empty school. A darkness hangs over the three however: the suicide, three months earlier, of classmate Yu. Norio blames Kazuhiko for Yu's death, because it was well-known that Yu loved Kazuhiko; so Kazuhiko is cruel to Norio, and yet has bad dreams. This uneasy arrangement is exacerbated by the arrival of Kaoru, a student early for the fall - who looks exactly like Yu.
Notes
- Although the setting is a Japanese boys' school, all the characters are played by girls.
Cast
- Eri Miyajima - Yu / Kaoru
- Tomoko Otakara - Kazuhiko
- Miyuki Nakano - Naoto
- Eri Fukatsu - Norio
- Masaaki Maeda - Narration
- Hiromi Murata - Voice of naoto
- Nozomu Sasaki - Voice of kazuhiko
- Minami Takayama - Voice of kaoru
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