Summer Wars
Samâ wôzu

Japan, 2010, 114 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Animated, Asian, Cult, Technology/Science, War

Digital presentation - In the award-winning Japanese animated feature Summer Wars, Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job—passing himself off as Natsuki’s boyfriend for four days during her grandmother’s 90th birthday celebration. But when Kenji solves a 2,056-digit math riddle sent to his cell phone, he unwittingly breaches the security barricade protecting Oz, a globe-spanning virtual world where millions of people and governments interact through their avatars, handling everything from online shopping and traffic control to national defense and nuclear launch codes. Now a malicious AI program called the Love Machine is hijacking Oz accounts, growing exponentially more powerful and sowing chaos and destruction in its wake. This intriguingly intelligent cyberpunk/sci-fi story is a visual tour-de-force, with the amazing world of Oz as the highlight. Like the Internet as conceived by pop artist Haruki Murakami, Oz is a hallucinatory pixel parade of cool avatar designs, kung fu jackrabbits, toothy bears and a bursting rainbow of colors. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time).

DIRECTOR: Mamoru Hosoda
Producer: Takuya Itô, Yuichiro Sato, Nozomu Takahashi, Takafumi Watanabe
Editor: Shigeru Nishiyama
Screenwriter: Satoko Okudera
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US Distributor: Gkids

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