Summer Vacation 1999

Summer Vacation 1999 (1999年の夏休み, Sen-kyūhyaku-kyūjūkyū-nen no natsu yasumi) is a 1988 Japanese romantic drama film directed by Shusuke Kaneko and based on the shōjo manga Thomas no Shinzō written by Moto Hagio, about four boys at a boarding school. Although the manga concerns homoerotic relationships among the boys, director Kaneko used girls, aged 14 to 16, to portray the boys in the film.[1][2][3]

Summer Vacation 1999
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Directed byShusuke Kaneko
Screenplay byRio Kishida
Based onThomas no Shinzō
by Moto Hagio
Music byYuriko Nakamura
CinematographyKenji Takama
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • March 26, 1988 (1988-03-26)
Running time
90 min.
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Cast

Release

Summer Vacation 1999 was released theatrically in Japan by Shochiku on March 26, 1988.[2] 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.[3] The film was also later screened at the 2001 Dutch Transgender Film Festival (NTGF).[4] In March 2014, Summer Vacation 1999 was part of the program honoring film critic Donald Richie at the Japan Society of New York.[5]

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 was given the award for Best Cinematography.[6][7] The film was also nominated for the Best Editing Award at the 12th Japan Academy Prize.[8]

References
  1. １９９９年の夏休み(1988) (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  2. １９９９年の夏休み (in Japanese). MovieWalker. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  3. "Summer Vacation 1999 (1989)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  4. "Summer Vacation: 1999". NTGF. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
  5. "FILM Summer Vacation 1999". Japan Society. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
  6. "Yokohama Film Festival: 1989". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
  7. 第１０回ヨコハマ映画祭: １９８８年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival homepage. 2005-10-30. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-04-19. External link in |publisher= (help)
  8. 第12回 日本アカデミー賞 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
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