Summer Vacation 1999
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Released
- 1988
- Country
- Japan
Details
Release year: 1988
Storyline
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.
Top credits
- Eri Miyajima — Yu, Kaoru
Tomoko Ôtakara — Kazuhiko- Miyuki Nakano — Naoto
Eri Fukatsu — Norio
Did you know
• All the boys in this film were played by girls.
User reviews
Homoerotic Idyll, except for...
Unlike Anything Else I've Seen
"I wanted to kill it while it stayed beautiful"
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Stereo
- Color
- Color
