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Film · 0 connectionsSummer Wars (2009)
- Animation
- Science Fiction
- 114 min
- 12 age guide
- ★ 7.5/10 from 1,065 ratings
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.
Directed byMamoru Hosoda
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