Summer Wars

Director: HOSODA Mamoru
2009, Animation Division, 115'
Grand Prize, 6th Japan Media Arts Festival
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The film focuses on a timid eleventh-grade math genius who has been falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world and, with the aid of an upper-classman's extensive family, must prevent the real and computer-simulated worlds from colliding.