Animation "Summer Wars"
JAPANEMA / Free Japanese Cinema Screening Series
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles provides high quality Japanese film screening every second and fourth Wednesday of month at 7:00 pm. All movies are in Japanese with English subtitles.
Venue: JFLA Auditorium, 5700 Wilshire Blvd, #100, Los Angeles, CA 90036.
Free to attend. Reservation is not required.
Street Parking is available. http://www.jflalc.org/about-us.html#parking
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July 23, 2014, 7:00 pm
"Summer Wars" (Animation, 115 mins, 2009)
Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
From the visionary directory of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Wolf Children comes the story of an ordinary family going to extraordinary lengths to avert the impending cyber apocalypse!
Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He is 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.
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