NEWS: DVD Release: Summer Wars


From Mamoru Hosoda, the visionary director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, comes a brand new, award-winning animated feature, Summer Wars, the story of an ordinary family forced to go to extraordinary lengths to avert an impending cyber-apocalypse.

Summer Wars was the winner of the 2010 Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival’s Animation Division Grand Prize, the Anaheim International Film Festival’s Audience Award for Best Animated Feature and was nominated for the prestigious Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival.

Kenji Koiso is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at maths, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has until the hottest girl at school, Natsuki Shinhara, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at a family reunion to celebrate her grandmother’s birthday. Things only get stranger from there.

A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematical riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue Artificial Intelligence agent intent on using the virtual word of OZ to destroy the real world. As true Armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and Natsuki’s family must set aside their differences and band together to save the worlds they inhabit, both real and virtual.

Also being released as a box set with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.


Film: Summer Wars
Release date: 28th March 2011
Certificate: 12
Running time: 109 mins
Director: Mamoru Hosada
Starring: Sumiko Fuji, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Ayumu Saitô
Genre: Anime
Studio: Manga
Format: DVD/Blu-ray
Country: Japan

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