Summer Vacation 1999
{{Short description|1988 film by Shūsuke Kaneko}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Summer Vacation 1999
| image = 1999 Summer Vacation film.jpg
| caption = Japanese DVD cover
| director = Shusuke Kaneko
| producer =
| screenplay = Rio Kishida
| based_on = {{based on|The Heart of Thomas|Moto Hagio}}
| narrator =
| starring =
| music = Yuriko Nakamura
| cinematography = Kenji Takama
| editing =
| distributor = Shochiku
| released = {{Film date|1988|3|26}}
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
| gross =
}}
{{nihongo|Summer Vacation 1999|1999年の夏休み|Sen-kyūhyaku-kyūjūkyū-nen no Natsuyasumi}} is a 1988 Japanese sci-fi ghost-story 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=86705|script-title=ja:１９９９年の夏休み(1988)|website=AllCinema|language=Japanese|access-date=2015-06-06}}{{cite web|url=http://movie.walkerplus.com/mv17745/|script-title=ja:１９９９年の夏休み|website=MovieWalker|language=Japanese|access-date=2015-06-06}} The film contains elements of science fiction and suspense/horror films, but also high-school drama and romance.
Cast
- Eri Miyajima as Yu / Kaoru
- Minami Takayama as the voice of Yu / Kaoru
- {{Interlanguage link|Tomoko Ōtakara|ja|3=大寶智子}} as Kazuhiko
- Nozomu Sasaki as the voice of Kazuhiko
- {{Interlanguage link|Miyuki Nakano|ja|3=中野みゆき}} as Naoto
- Hiromi Murata as the voice of Naoto
- Eri Fukatsu as Norio
- {{Interlanguage link|Masaaki Maeda|ja|3=前田昌明}} as Narrator
Release
Summer Vacation 1999 was released theatrically in Japan by Shochiku on March 26, 1988. It was shown as part of the New Directors/New Films Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in March 1989.{{cite web |last1=Canby |first1=Vincent |author1-link=Vincent Canby |title=Movie Review: Summer Vacation 1999 (1989) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE5DA103BF937A15750C0A96F948260 |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325003559/https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE5DA103BF937A15750C0A96F948260 |archive-date=March 25, 2016 |date=March 24, 1989 |url-status=dead}} The film was also later screened at the 2001 Dutch Transgender Film Festival (NTGF).{{cite web|url=http://www.transgenderfilmfestival.com/2001/_GB/article_summer.html|title=Summer Vacation: 1999|website=The Dutch Transgender Film Festival|access-date=2015-06-06}} In March 2014, Summer Vacation 1999 was part of the program honoring film critic Donald Richie at the Japan Society of New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.japansociety.org/event/summer-vacation-1999|title=Film: Summer Vacation 1999|website=Japan Society|access-date=2015-06-09}} The film inspired the song Summer Holiday 1999 by Momus.
Reception
At the 10th Yokohama Film Festival in 1989, the film was ranked number 8 in the Best 10 Films of the year. At the same festival, director Shusuke Kaneko won the Best Director award for his work on this film and his other 1988 entry Last Cabaret, and Kenji Takama won the award for Best Cinematography.{{cite web|date=2005-10-30|url=http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/10-1988/10_1988_shou.html|script-title=ja:第１０回ヨコハマ映画祭: １９８８年日本映画個人賞|website=Yokohama Film Festival|language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175754/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/10-1988/10_1988_shou.html|archive-date=2016-03-03}} The film was also nominated for the Best Editing Award at the 12th Japan Academy Film Prizes.{{cite web |url=http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=12|script-title=ja:第12回 日本アカデミー賞 |access-date=June 10, 2015 |website=Japan Academy Film Prize |language=ja}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0094595|title=Summer Vacation 1999}}
{{Shusuke Kaneko}}
Category:1988 science fiction films
Category:1988 romantic drama films
Category:1988 LGBTQ-related films
Category:Films directed by Shusuke Kaneko
Category:Films featuring an all-female cast
Category:Films about sexual repression
Category:Japanese coming-of-age films
Category:Japanese LGBTQ-related films
Category:Japanese romantic drama films