Summer Wars poster

MOVIE · 2009

Summer Wars

Japanese original · 114 min

★ 7.5 TMDB · 1,069 votes

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.

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Original title
サマーウォーズ
Release date
2009-08-01
Genres
Animation, Science Fiction
Production countries
Japan

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