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Once and Future Boys and Girls – Meditations on Summer Vacation 1999

By berightback
Published: January 07, 2009

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By BeRightBack

Over the recent winter break, I had occasion to re-watch one of my favorite Japanese movies, Summer Vacation 1999 [1999?????].

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  1. adamstreeter posted the following on January 7, 2009 at 2:18 am.

    Believe it or not, that wasn’t the first time I’ve heard the phrase “I think you is inside Kaoru.”

  2. slinkers posted the following on January 7, 2009 at 7:23 am.

    @Adam: You have GOT to let me borrow that copy of Evangelion.

  3. vaquero posted the following on January 7, 2009 at 10:26 am.

    Damn, that sounds amazing. (going to netflix)

  4. vaquero posted the following on January 7, 2009 at 10:29 am.

    Sometimes Netflix sucks.

  5. BeRightBack posted the following on January 7, 2009 at 12:48 pm.

    Vaquero: A subtitled DVD version doesn’t seem to exist (though maybe a bootleg out of Hong Kong will come out sometime?). New Yorker Films released it on VHS and, like most of their titles, let it go out of print and will neither put out a DVD version themselves or let anyone else do so (see also, Cruel Story of Youth, Tampopo, etc.). There are a lot of good Japanese and other foreign films that are almost impossible to get a hold of these days for this reason.

    Adam: I included that still just for you. [btw: "Yu" is the name of the boy's first incarnation]

  6. adamstreeter posted the following on January 7, 2009 at 2:33 pm.

    @ BRB

    Oh! I know.

    Back when my mother was running the local foreign student exchange, we had a girl named Yu. She got quite a kick when people would ask her name so she could reply, “I’m Yu.”

  7. vaquero posted the following on January 10, 2009 at 6:54 pm.

    U at the door!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-710xHy3yw

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