Summer Wars
AnimationScience Fiction
7.454/10
|JP
|ja
|114 min
Release Date: 2009-08-01
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
MadhouseNippon Television Network CorporationKADOKAWA ShotenD.N. Dream PartnersWarner Bros. JapanYomiuri Telecasting Corporation
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
It’s really quite apposite to watch this film at a time when governments across the world are merrily acquiescing to the demands of global tech to facilitate the rampant advance of AI. This story quite cleverly illustrates just how easily a collection of “Will Hunting” types can be used to crack even the most complex (2,000 digit) numeric code and allow nefarious access to a global network which m...
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