Summer Wars (2009)

Summer Wars is a 2009 Japanese animated movie directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Madhouse studio.

Movie info

Original title: サマーウォーズ
Release date: August 1, 2009
Directed by: Mamoru Hosoda
Written by: Mamoru Hosoda (story)
Satoko Okudera (screenplay)
Distributed by: Warner Bros.

Region 2 DVD box (English subtitles & dubbed)
Label: Manga Entertainment (UK)
Out: Mar 28, 2011
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Region B Blu-ray box (English subtitles & dubbed)
Label: Manga Entertainment (UK)
Out: Mar 28, 2011
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Plot

When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki (Nanami Sakuraba) to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi clan, dates back to the Muromachi era (1336 to 1573), and they’ve all come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiance and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation allows a malicious artificial intelligence to hack into a worldwide network called “OZ” and it’s up to Kenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order before the AI uses OZ’s many connections to vital real world systems to cause massive damage.

Featured Cast

Actor		Role
	Ryunosuke Kamiki	Kenji Koiso (voice)
	Nanami Sakuraba	Natsuki Shinohara (voice)
	Mitsuki Tanimura	Kazuma Ikezawa (voice)
	Takahiro Yokokawa	Takashi Sakuma (voice)
	Mieko Nobusawa	Mariko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Mutsumi Sasaki	Kazuo Shinohara (voice)
	Takashi Kobayashi	Tasuke Jin'nochi (voice)
	Yoji Tanaka	Yorihiko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Kiyomi Tanigawa	Yukiko Shinohara (voice)
	Hashiya Nakamura	Kunihiko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Sakiko Tamagawa	Rika Jin'nochi (voice)
	Kaori Yamagata	Naomi Miwa (voice)
	Takuya Kirimoto	Ri'ichi Jin'nochi (voice)
	Mitsutaka Itakura	Katsuhiko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Tagame Tamura	Kiyomi Ikezawa (voice)
	Eiko Kanazawa	Noriko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Chigusa Takaku	Nana Jin'nochi (voice)
	Yutaka Shimizu	Shota Jin'nochi (voice)
	Naoto Adachi	Ryohei Jin'nochi (voice)
	Riisa Naka	Yumi Jin'nochi (voice)
	Sumire Morohoshi	Mao Jin'nochi (voice)
	Yuki Imai	Shingo Jin'nochi (voice)
	Rikito Ota	Yuhei Jin'nochi (voice)
	Hinano Minagawa	Kana Jin'nochi (voice)
	Ayumu Saito	Wabisuke Jin'nochi (voice)
	Sumiko Fuji	Sakae Jin'nochi (voice)
	Michael Sinterniklaas	Kenji Koiso (voice)
	Brina Palencia	Natsuki Shinohara (voice)
	Pam Dougherty	Sakae Jin'nochi (voice)
	Todd Haberkorn	Takashi Sakuma (voice)
	J. Michael Tatum	Wabisuke Jin'nochi (voice)
	Maxey Whitehead	Kazuma Ikezawa (voice)
	John Swasey	Mansuke Jin'nochi (voice)
	Shelley Calene-Black	Mariko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Lydia Mackay	Naomi Miwa (voice)
	Mike McFarland	Shota Jin'nochi (voice)
	Monica Rial	Yumi Jin'nochi (voice)
	Barry Yandell	Mansaku Jin'nochi (voice)
	Chuck Huber	Ri'ichi Jin'nochi (voice)
	Cynthia Cranz	Rika Jin'nochi (voice)
	John Burgmeier	Tasuke Jin'nochi (voice)
	Christopher Sabat	Katsuhiko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Robert McCollum	Yorihiko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Brittney Karbowski	Yuhei Jin'nochi (voice)
	Alison Viktorin	Shingo Jin'nochi (voice)
	Patrick Seitz	Kunihiko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Colleen Clinkenbeard	Noriko Jin'nochi (voice)
	Jennifer Seman	Kiyomi Ikezawa (voice)
	Cherami Leigh	Mao Jin'nochi (voice)
	Caitlin Glass	Nana Jin'nochi (voice)
	Bill Jenkins	Kazuo Shinohara (voice)
	Anastasia Munoz	Yukiko Shinohara (voice)
	Jason Liebrecht	Ryohei Jin'nochi (voice)
	Tia Lynn Ballard	Kana Jin'nochi (voice)
	Alexis Tipton	Additional Voices (voice)
	Joel McDonald	Additional Voices (voice)
	Phil Parsons	Additional Voices (voice)
	Liza Gonzalez	Additional Voices (voice)
	Trina Nishimura	Additional Voices (voice)
	Maeghan Albach	Additional Voices (voice)
	Anthony Bowling	Additional Voices (voice)
	Scott Freeman	Additional Voices (voice)
	Mary Morgan	Additional Voices (voice)
	R. Bruce Elliott	Additional Voices (voice)
	Chris Ayres	Additional Voices (voice)
	Kara Edwards	Additional Voices (voice)
	Chris Cason	Additional Voices (voice)
	Sonny Strait	Additional Voices (voice)
	Clarine Harp	Additional Voices (voice)
	John Gremillion	Additional Voices (voice)
	Eric Vale	Additional Voices (voice)
	Mark Stoddard	Additional Voices (voice)
	Grant James	Additional Voices (voice)
	Chris Burnett	Additional Voices (voice)
	Greg Silva	Additional Voices (voice)
	Stephanie Young	Additional Voices (voice)
	Dave Trosko	Additional Voices (voice)
	Jim Foronda	Additional Voices (voice)
	Tobias Diakow	Kenji Koiso (voice)
	Shinichi Hatori
	Ichiro Nagai	Mansuke Jin'nochi (voice)
	Tadashi Nakamura	Mansaku Jin'nochi (voice)

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