Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)
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.
Director:
Shusuke Kaneko
Writer:
Rio Kishida
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Eri Miyajima as Yu / Kaoru |
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Tomoko Otakara as Kazuhiko |
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Miyuki Nakano as Naoto |
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Eri Fukatsu as Norio |
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Masaaki Maeda as Narration |
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Hiromi Murata as Naoto (voice) |
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Nozomu Sasaki as Kazuhiko (voice) |
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Minami Takayama as Kaoru (voice) |
| Directing | Shusuke Kaneko | Director |
| Sound | Yuriko Nakamura | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kenji Takama | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Hiroyuki Yasukouchi | Lighting Director |
| Writing | Rio Kishida | Screenplay |
| Production | Naoya Narita | Producer |
| Production | Yutaka Okada | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Isao Tomita | Editor |
| Writing | Moto Hagio | Comic Book |
| Directing | Hiroaki Tochihara | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Haruyasu Ito | Music Supervisor |
| Production | Eiji Kishi | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mitsuhisa Hida | Producer |
| Production | Hajime Seta | Production Manager |
| Camera | Makoto Shionoya | Underwater Director of Photography |
| Camera | Akihiro Uemura | Underwater Director of Photography |
| Camera | Michiko Honda | Underwater Director of Photography |
| Art | Shu Yamaguchi | Art Direction |
| Art | Akira Yamazaki | Set Decoration |
| Art | Keiichi Hasegawa | Set Decoration |
| Art | Satoru Suda | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Feng Qixiao | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Motoko Watanabe | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Hiroyoshi Yanagida | Music Director |
| Sound | Koshiro Jinbo | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Masayoshi Saito | Sound Effects |