Summer Wars

  • Animation
  • Science Fiction
8/1/2009
114
PG

Always protect your network.

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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  • Geronimo1967

    Its 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 manages just about everything we do - from using our phones to firing a nuclear missile. Its bright spark - but maybe just a touch inept - Kenji who has accepted a task that is definitely not what he was expecting from Natsuki and so finds himself at her grandmothers ninetieth birthday luncheon posing as her beau. A bit of a nervous wreck, he is later ...

    August 6, 2025

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