| Summer Vacation 1999 | |
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| Directed by | Shusuke Kaneko |
| Screenplay by | Rio Kishida |
| Based on | The Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio |
| Cinematography | Kenji Takama |
| Music by | Yuriko Nakamura |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.[1][2][3] The film contains elements of science fiction and suspense/horror films, but also high-school drama and romance.