From the director of the award-winning 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' Mamoru Hosoda, comes his highly anticipated follow-up SUMMER WARS.

The world of SUMMER WARS is identical to contemporary Japan, except for the existence of OZ – a mix between a social network and virtual world, where almost everyone and everything is connected. All you have to do is register, create your own virtual avatar and log in.

Timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by his secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job. Turns out Kenji discovers his “summer job” is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiance, for the celebration of Natsuki’s spunky grandmother’s 90th birthday. There, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving it. As it turns out, his solution creates chaos within the virtual world of OZ, translating into anarchy in real-life.

SUMMER WARS provides an incisive commentary on the ongoing transition from the grandmother's analog world of handwritten cards/letters to her heirs’ realm of digital devices, in which the human touch is attenuated — or nonexistent. Will we succumb to our gadgets and machines?