If you loved Summer Vacation 1999, try Death Note
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Shusuke Kaneko, and they sit in Fantasy / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to Summer Vacation 1999, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Death Note is
Tokyo dawn. A crisp blue notebook flips open on a high-school desk. Light Yagami uses the Death Note to erase criminals, then notices the obituaries stop matching faces. Across the city, a gaunt detective in a messy apartment sketches a single question mark beside every headline. A chess match of genocidal stakes.

