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Summer Wars
サマーウォーズ
Hosoda Mamoru
Japan
2009, 114'
VO. Japanese
ST. English
The girl of his dreams snatches Kenji away from his virtual second life, and he must pretend to be her fiancé. A romantic adventure quickly goes awry thanks to the plans of a rebellious AI intent on destroying the world.
Academically gifted but unlucky in love, the young Kenji sees the virtual world of OZ as his chance to live out his dream life. That is until Natsuki, the girl of his dreams, enlists him against his will to be her pretend fiancé in front of her family. The ruse is complicated by the threat of Love Machine, an artificial intelligence unleashed by Kenji and determined to cause chaos from OZ. Summer Wars crystallizes the work of its unparalleled director, exploring the opposition between reality and the virtual world, and pairing innovative narrative concepts with sublime sentimentalism, all animated in extraordinary detail. By avoiding the pitfalls of simplistic technophobia, Hosoda has created one of the most beautiful interpretations of the Internet age.
Direction
Hosoda Mamoru
Screenplay
Hosoda Mamoru, Okudera Satoko
Image
Masumoto Yukihiro
Editing
Nishiyama Shigeru
Sound
Obara Yoshio, Woo Heedo
Music
Matsumoto Akihiko
Production
Madhouse, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Kadokawa Corporation, D.N.dreampartners, Warner Bros Pictures Japan, Yomiuri Television, Video Audio Project (VAP)
With
Kamiki Ryûnosuke, Sakuraba Nanami, Tanimura Mitsuki
World sales
Nippon Television Network Corporation (Mayumi Furuyama)
Sunday 6 Nov. 2022 |
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