Summer Wars (movie)
Alternative title:
サマーウォーズ (Japanese)
Plot Summary:
When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a bizarre parallel world to collide with Earth, and it’s up to Kenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order.
Running time:
114 minutes
Vintage:
2009-08-01
Premiere date:
2009-08-01 (Japan)
Official website:
映画「サマーウォーズ」公式サイト (Japanese)
In the news 18 times:
2009-08-26 Japanese Box Office, August 8-9
2009-08-19 Japanese Comic Ranking, August 10-16
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