Summer Vacation 1999

Summer Vacation 1999

1988•1h 30m•5.9/10

DramaRomanceMysteryFantasy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.9/10(15)

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.

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Production

Shibata Organisation, New Century Producers, CBS / Sony Group

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Eri Miyajima

Eri Miyajima

Yu / Kaoru

Tomoko Otakara

Tomoko Otakara

Kazuhiko

Miyuki Nakano

Naoto

Eri Fukatsu

Eri Fukatsu

Norio

Masaaki Maeda

Narration

Hiromi Murata

Naoto (voice)

Nozomu Sasaki

Nozomu Sasaki

Kazuhiko (voice)

Minami Takayama

Minami Takayama

Kaoru (voice)

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