Summer Wars (2009)
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.
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What critics compared Summer Wars to
Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" was a trippy predecessor to "Inception" (at a fraction of the budget), and now Mamoru Hosoda's "Summer Wars" adds some needed color to the virtual-world theme in movies like "Tron."
I even like old classics of the genre like Tron and the anime film Summer Wars .