1999 - Nen no natsu yasumi

"It's you, I'm in my teens!"

Jul 1 1989 N/A 1h 30m
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Summer Vacation tells the story of four teenage students who spend their summer vacation at school – unsupervised and untouched by the outside world.

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.

Written by

Moto Hagio, Rio Kishida

Directed by

Shûsuke Kaneko

Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

CBS Sony Group Inc., New Century Producers, Shibata Organisation

Languages

Awards

2 wins & 2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
351
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA