Summer Vacation: 1999

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Summer Vacation: 1999 ★★ 1999—Nen No Natsu Yasumi 1988

Four boys are left behind at boarding school during their summer vacation. They experience all the early pangs of adolescence from love to jealousy. Their summer is then disturbed by the arrival of another boy who appears to be the reincarnation of a dead friend. Romantic look at youth caught between innocence and awareness. In Japanese with English subtitles. 90m/C VHS . JP Eri Miyagima, Miyuki Nakano, Tomoko Otakra, Rie Mizuhara; D: Shusuke (Shu) Kaneko.