Summer wars
(DVD)

Production companies: NTV, Madhouse, Kadokawa Group Publishing Co., Ltd., D.N.dreampartners, Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, YTV, VAP.

Videodisc release of the 2009 motion picture.

Special features: Disc 2: Interview with Rhynosuke Kamiki (Kenji Koiso); Interview with Nanami Sakuraba (Natsuki Shinohara); Interview with Mitsuki Tanimura (Kazuma Ikezawa); Interview with Ayumu Saito (Wabisuke Jinnouchi); Interview with Sumiko Fuji (Sakae Jinnouchi); Interview with Mamoru Hosoda (director); Teaser trailers; Teaser TV spot; Original trailer; TV spots.

Music, Akihiko Matsumoto ; film editing, Shigeru Nishiyama ; director of photography, Yukihiro Matsumoto ; art director, Youji Takeshige ; character design, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto ; OZ character design, Takashi Okazaki, Mina Okazaki, Masaru Hamada ; animation directors, Hiroyuki Aoyama, Shigeru Fujita, Kunihiko Hamada, Kazutaka Ozaki ; action animation director, Tatsuzo Nishita. English version: executive producer, Gen Fukunaga ; producers, Carly Hunter, Justin Cook ; head writer, John Burgmeier ; script writer, Patrick Seitz.

Voices: Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa, Sumiko Fuji. Voices (English cast): Michael Sinterniklaas, Brina Palencia, Pam Dougherty, Todd Haberkorn, J. Michael Tatum.

Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, 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 girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on using the virtual word of OZ to destroy the real world, literarily. As Armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and his new family set aside their differences and band together to save the worlds they inhabit in this near-perfect blend of social satire and science fiction.

MPAA rating: PG; for action violence, some suggestive content, language, mild thematic material and incidental smoking.

DVD ; NTSC, region 1; widescreen; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

In Japanese with optional dubbed English dialogue and optional subtitles in English.

Best Animated Film, Japan Academy Prize ; Best Animated Film, Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia ; Audience Award, Best Animated Feature, Anaheim International Film Festival ; Official Selection, New York International Children's Film Festival ; Best Animated Film, Mainichi Film Concours.

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