This highly homoerotic tale based on a yaoi manga manages to convey great desire without sexual explicitness, mostly due to the young age of the boys cast. The story deals with adolescent boys who still inhabit an empty school in summer, and follows their jealousies and romances.
Japanese study overview
1999 - Nen no natsu yasumi is a Japanese movie of 9,236 characters, with 968 unique words and 461 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 968 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
This title is too short to reliably find similar media.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 僕I×119
- 悠Shinobu×98
- 君you×72
- 和彦Kazuhiko×58
- 薫aroma×38
- 則夫Norio×37
- 死ぬto die×32
- 直人Suguhito×24
- 母さんmother×23
- 好きliking×21
- 言うto say×19
- 知るto know×14
- 転入生transfer student×4
- 違うto differ (from)×11
- 殺すto kill×10
- 早くearly×9
- 目eye×9
- 許すto permit×9
- 忘れるto forget×8
- 誰もeveryone×8