Animation

Science Fiction

サマーウォーズ

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Nippon Television Network Corporation

KADOKAWA Shoten

D.N. Dream Partners

Warner Bros. Japan

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

Studio Chizu

Japan

日本語

Summer Wars

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Hitomi Miyauchi

Mitsuki Tanimura

Sumiko Fuji

Ayumu Saito

Takahiro Yokokawa

Kiyomi Tanigawa

Mutsumi Sasaki

Mieko Nobusawa

Takuya Kirimoto

Sakiko Tamagawa

Ichiro Nagai

Takashi Kobayashi

Yutaka Shimizu

Kaori Yamagata

Tagame Tamura

Tadashi Nakamura

Yoji Tanaka

Hashiya Nakamura

Mitsutaka Itakura

Eiko Kanazawa

Chigusa Takaku

Riisa Naka

Naoto Adachi

Rikito Ota

Yuki Imai

Sumire Morohoshi

Hinano Minagawa

Nozomu Takahashi

Takuya Ito

Mamoru Hosoda

Yuichiro Saito

Akihiko Matsumoto

Shigeru Nishiyama

Satoko Okudera

Yasuyuki Konno

Kazutaka Ozaki

Ayumi Arahata

Mami Yamaguchi

Aya Takano

Yuki Hayashi

Nobumasa Shinkawa

Tadashi Sakazaki

Takashi Mukoda

Keisuke Masunaga

Anri Jojo

Nobutake Ito

Shigeru Fujita

Kumiko Taniguchi

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Soichiro Matsuda

Hiroyuki Aoyama

Tatsuro Yamashita

Takashi Okazaki

Tatsuzo Nishida

Kaori Kobayashi

Takashi Hashimoto

Kunihiko Hamada

Kumiko Kawana

Michio Fukuda

Junko Ina

Chiemi Irisa

Kouichi Arai

Tadashi Abiru

Keiko Itogawa

Ayako Hata

Michiyo Suzuki

Yuzo Yamada

Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru

Yumi Ishii

Chikako Kamata

Chie Uratani

Yasunori Miyazawa

Miwa Sasaki

Takaaki Hirayama

Shougo Furuya

Yoshio Obara

Takayuki Hamada

Mitsuko Baba

Naruyo Kiriyama

Tomohisa Shimoyama

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Mina Okazaki

Hideki Takahashi

Hiroko Minowa

Jun Sekiguchi

Yukihiro Masumoto

Ryotaro Makihara

Yoshihiro Kitano

Yasuhiro Nakura

Masaru Hamada

Kenji Hachizaki

Akitoshi Yokoyama

Atsuko Tanaka

Tadashi Matsuzaki

Ayumi Kawai

Ken Ootsuka

Masako Sato

Shiho Sato

Akane Iwakuma

Izumi Muta

Kohei Tanada

Kozue Okada

Masayuki Onoue

Takashi Muratani

Kuniko Iwatani

Yuji Ikeda

Naomi Takahashi

Hiromasa Ogura

Yoichi Nishikawa

Kazuyuki Hashimoto

Yoshikazu Fukutome

Kenji Fujita

Toshiharu Mizutani

Hitoshi Nagasaki

Ayami Aritake

Kei Machida

Yoshiyuki Ito

Takafumi Hori

Sawako Miyamoto

Mika Nishimura

Naoto Abe

Hideaki Yoshio

Katsushi Aoki

Shinichi Uehara

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It’s 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. It’s 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 grandmother’s ninetieth birthday luncheon posing as her beau. A bit of a nervous wreck, he is later presented with an online puzzle by “OZ”, the network in question and he manages to message back a solution. Next thing we all know, it’s been hacked by an increasingly violent AI that is bent on a quest for knowledge and power, and that will stop at nothing. When poor old “Kenji” is identified and gets the blame, only an unique sort of intervention from granny and a solid series of team efforts from her family and from his friends might enable them to thwart this menacing creation. The animation starts off with images that reminded me of one of those childhood kaleidoscopes that brought vibrant crystalline shapes together, before heading full pelt into a frequently quite pithily comedic look at family traditions, teenage hormones and menacing nasties threatening the entire fabric of the internet. You’ll possibly never see a more potent cinematic demonstration of just how dependent and inter-dependant we are on this network of cables and zeroes and ones for much, if not most, of modern life. Not just our social lives, but our actual lives too are controlled and once control of that falls into malevolent hands, well humanity risks being well and truly stuffed. The last half hour focuses a little more on dealing with that problem, and the quickly paced action animation is underpinned by a plausible degree of science too. In many ways, it’s almost a horror movie - especially if you think on it: first love or online demons?

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Ryunosuke Kamiki

Hitomi Miyauchi

Mitsuki Tanimura

Sumiko Fuji

Ayumu Saito

Takahiro Yokokawa

Kiyomi Tanigawa

Mutsumi Sasaki

Mieko Nobusawa

Takuya Kirimoto

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