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Summer Wars

Summer Wars

Animation · Science Fiction · 2009

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.

Movie details

Summer Wars

“Always protect your network.”

2009 Animation · Science Fiction 1h 54m

Critical arithmetic

One number, for now.

TMDB

7.5 / 10

Community rating

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Summer Wars?

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Mamoru Hosoda

Written by

Satoko Okudera

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Kenji Koiso (voice)

Hitomi Miyauchi

Hitomi Miyauchi

Natsuki Shinohara (voice)

Mitsuki Tanimura

Mitsuki Tanimura

Kazuma Ikezawa (voice)

Sumiko Fuji

Sumiko Fuji

Sakae Jinnouchi (voice)

Ayumu Saito

Ayumu Saito

Wabisuke Jinnouchi (voice)

Takahiro Yokokawa

Takahiro Yokokawa

Takashi Sakuma (voice)

Kiyomi Tanigawa

Kiyomi Tanigawa

Yukiko Shinohara (voice)

Court is in session

Put Summer Wars on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.