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Summer Wars

Summer Wars
The film poster shows a boy and a girl standing next to each other. Behind them is a group of people, televisions and a boat. In the background is partly cloudy sky and grassy hills and at the top is the tagline. The middle has the four lead actors and credits, and the bottom contains the film's name and a list of the character designer and director's previous works, as well as the theme song performer.
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Produced by
  • Nozomu Takahashi
  • Takuya Ito
  • Takashi Watanabe
  • Yuichiro Saito
Screenplay by Satoko Okudera
Story by Mamoru Hosoda
Starring
Music by Akihiko Matsumoto
Cinematography Yukihiro Matsumoto
Edited by Shigeru Nishiyama
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • August 1, 2009 (2009-08-01)
Running time
 114 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Box office US$18.4 million

Summer Wars (Japanese: サマーウォーズ Hepburn: Samā Wōzu?) is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, animated by Madhouse and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji and Ayumu Saitō. The film tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a sadistic artificial intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done to it and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further damage.

After producing The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Madhouse was asked to produce something new. Hosoda and writer Satoko Okudera conceived a story about a social network and a stranger's connection with a family. The real-life city of Ueda was chosen as the setting for Summer Wars, as part of the territory was once governed by the Sanada clan and was close to Hosoda's birthplace in Toyama. Hosoda used the clan as the basis for the Jinnouchi family after visiting his then-fiancé's home in Ueda.


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