Summer Wars
2009 · TMDB 7.5 · サマーウォーズ
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.
Why it matters
Mamoru Hosoda's animation pits a sprawling Japanese family against a rogue AI inside a vast online world called OZ. The film's warmth lies in its insistence that real kinship can survive a digital crisis.
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Released
- 2009-08-01
- Studio
- Madhouse
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- TMDB score
- 7.5
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Mamoru Hosoda
Director
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Satoko Okudera
Writer
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Ryunosuke Kamiki
Kenji Koiso (voice)
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Hitomi Miyauchi
Natsuki Shinohara (voice)
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Mitsuki Tanimura
Kazuma Ikezawa (voice)
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Sumiko Fuji
Sakae Jinnouchi (voice)
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Ayumu Saito
Wabisuke Jinnouchi (voice)
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Takahiro Yokokawa
Takashi Sakuma (voice)
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Kiyomi Tanigawa
Yukiko Shinohara (voice)
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Mutsumi Sasaki
Kazuo Shinohara (voice)
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