Summer Vacation 1999

Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)

1999年の夏休み

With no families to return to for summer vacation, three teenage boys spend their summer at their boarding school, alone and unsupervised. Darkness hangs over them after another boy shows up, who looks exactly like one of their classmates who had committed suicide months earlier. His arrival exposes the romances, jealousies, and tensions of growing up.

Date of release
1988-03-26
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Mystery, Fantasy
Director
Shusuke Kaneko

Casting

Interesting facts

Summer Vacation 1999 is a 1988 Japanese sci-fi ghost-story film directed by Shusuke Kaneko, adapted from the manga series The Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio. It follows the lives of four students alone in a remote all-boys boarding school with no one else on their summer vacations. It concerns the relationships between the pupils after one of their classmates commits suicide, and then apparently returns as a double. Although the manga concerns homoerotic relationships among the boys, director Kaneko used girls, aged 14 to 16, to portray the boys in the film. The film contains elements of science fiction and suspense/horror films, but also high-school drama and romance.

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