Summer Wars - Official Page

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 Takashi Murakami, Oz is a hallucinatory pixel parade of cool avatar designs, kung fu jackrabbits, toothy bears, and a bursting rainbow of colors.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - JAPAN ACADEMY PRIZE

Official Selection: Annecy, Berlin, Fantastic Fest, Fantasia (Best Animated Film), Stiges (Best Animated Film)

Critical praise for Summer Wars:

“Dazzling! Gorgeous! Richly detailed and beautifully written! Hosoda is the best storyteller working within the animated medium in Japan - and possibly the world!" - Todd Brown, Twitch

"A whirlwind of a film! Further proof Japan does grown-up children's stories better than the United States!" - New York Times

"Spectacular! Visionary! Mind-Bending! Staggering!" - Variety

“The dazzling fluency of motion and untethered brilliance of invention makes the usual fantasy anime look childish and dull!" - Japan Times