---
title: 'Summer Wars (2009)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mamoru Hosoda'
released: '2009-08-01'
runtime_minutes: 114
genres:
  - 'Science Fiction'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/summer-wars-2009'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1474276/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Summer Wars (2009)

2009 · 114 min · Science Fiction · Japan

Original title: サマーウォーズ

## Synopsis

Summer Wars  is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, produced by Madhouse, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji, and Ayumu Saitō. Set in 2010, Summer Wars tells the story of Kenji Koiso, a timid eleventh-grade math genius who is taken to Ueda by twelfth-grade student Natsuki Shinohara to celebrate her great-grandmother's 90th birthday. However, he is falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world by a self-aware, sadistic Artificial Intelligence named Love Machine. Kenji must repair the damage done, and find a way to stop the rogue computer program from causing any further chaos.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mamoru Hosoda](https://cinepixo.com/people/mamoru-hosoda)
- **Screenplay:** [Mamoru Hosoda](https://cinepixo.com/people/mamoru-hosoda), [Satoko Okudera](https://cinepixo.com/people/satoko-okudera)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Akihiko Matsumoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/akihiko-matsumoto)
- **Producer:** [Yūichirō Saitō](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuichiro-saito), [Nozomu Takahashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/nozomu-takahashi)
- **Director of Photography:** [Yukihiro Matsumoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/yukihiro-matsumoto)

## Cast

- [Tadashi Nakamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/tadashi-nakamura)
- [Chigusa Takaku](https://cinepixo.com/people/chigusa-takaku)
- [Rikito Ōta](https://cinepixo.com/people/rikito-ota)
- [Yutaka Shimizu](https://cinepixo.com/people/yutaka-shimizu)
- [Mitsutaka Itakura](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitsutaka-itakura)
- [Sakiko Tamagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/sakiko-tamagawa)
- [Kiyomi Tanigawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kiyomi-tanigawa)
- [Eiko Kanazawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/eiko-kanazawa)
- [Ayumu Saitō](https://cinepixo.com/people/ayumu-saito)
- [Tagame Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/tagame-tanaka)
- [Sumire Morohoshi](https://cinepixo.com/people/sumire-morohoshi)
- [Sumiko Fuji](https://cinepixo.com/people/sumiko-fuji)
- [Yōji Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoji-tanaka)
- [Shin'ichi Hatori](https://cinepixo.com/people/shin-ichi-hatori)
- [Ryūnosuke Kamiki](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryunosuke-kamiki)

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Official site: http://www.s-wars.jp
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/summer-wars-2009
Film facts: Wikidata (Q715526); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.