Opens 25 FEBRUARY 2010 in Singapore!
From the director of the award-winning 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' comes this highly anticipated follow-up, Summer Wars.
Plot
Kenji Koiso (Ryunosuke Kamiki/Michael Sinterniklaas) is a young high school student with a gift in mathematics working as a part-time moderator in the massive computer-simulated virtual reality world OZ, along with his friend Takashi Sakuma (Takahiro Yokokawa/Todd Haberkorn). When Kenji's friend Natsuki Shinohara (Nanami Sakuraba/Brina Palencia) offers him the chance to participate in celebrating the 90th birthday of her great-grandmother, Sakae Jinnouchi (Sumiko Fuji/Pam Dougherty), Natsuki takes him to the grandmother's estate in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, and introduces Kenji as her fiancé.
Kenji meets several of Natsuki's relatives and Wabisuke Jinnouchi (Ayumu Saito-/J. Michael Tatum), Natsuki's uncle and a Carnegie Mellon University professor who has been living in America for ten years. He receives a mysterious e-mail with a mathematical code which he cracks. Love Machine, an artificial intelligence running in the OZ mainframe, uses Kenji's account and his avatar to hack into the mainframe, causing widespread damage. Kenji, Natsuki's cousin Kazuma Ikezawa (Mitsuki Tanimura/Maxey Whitehead) and Sakuma try to stop Love Machine. Kazuma's avatar, King Kazma, is defeated as Love Machine continues to steal accounts and create catastrophic traffic congestion, as well as disabling electrical devices. Government worker Rika Jinnouchi (Sakiko Tamagawa/Cynthia Cranz) and policeman Shota Jinnouchi (Yutaka Sasaki/Mike McFarland) reveal Kenji's identity. Shota arrests Kenji, but they later return to the house due to the ensuing chaos.
Recognizing the situation as akin to war Sakae calls her various associates, in important positions in Japan's society, and her family who work in various emergency services. She encourages them to work their hardest to reduce the potential chaos and damage that could have occurred. Kenji eventually hacks into the mainframe using his math skills and returns control of OZ to the moderators and engineers. Wabisuke reveals that he actually created Love Machine and sold it to the United States Armed Forces, angering Sakae. After a brief argument Wabisuke leaves the estate. Sakae encourages Kenji to take care of Natsuki during a Hanafuda match. Kenji and the Jinnouchi family run to Sakae's bedside the next morning to find that she has died; Love Machine made her heart monitoring system fail. Kenji, Sakuma, and half of the Jinnouchi family initiate a plan to destroy Love Machine using a supercomputer, while Natsuki and the others prepare a funeral for Sakae.
As Kenji, Sakuma and the Jinnouchi family trap Love Machine the supercomputer overheats. Love Machine assimilates more accounts and grows into an immense botnet. It grievously wounds King Kazma and redirects the Arawashi, an orbiting satellite, on to a collision course with a nuclear power plant. Meanwhile Natsuki discovers a will left by Sakae and the family regroups with Kenji. Natsuki has Wabisuke return home before reading Sakae's will, revealing that the family is asked to bring Wabisuke back to their lives. Kenji surmises that the Love Machine sees everything as a game and has the Jinnouchi family play Hanafuda with Love Machine in OZ's casino world. They wager their accounts in a desperate effort to stop Love Machine and Natsuki initially wins several rounds, but gets distracted and nearly loses her "winnings".
At this point people from all over the world, who witness her Hanafuda duel against Love Machine, enter their own accounts into the wager on her side. Natsuki eventually wins the Hanafuda duel and severely damages Love Machine, causing a massive explosion that destroys most of his body. Love Machine redirects the Arawashi towards a collision on the Jinnouchi family's estate and Kenji tries to hack into the satellite's GPS directly. Love Machine continues to block Kenji's attempts, but Wabisuke disables Love Machine's defenses. King Kazma is revived and assisted by several Jinnouchi family avatars and destroys Love Machine. Kenji eventually activates the GPS code and redirects the satellite away from the estate. The Arawashi hits close to the residence, causing a shockwave that destroys the entrance, the front part of the house and causes a geyser to erupt. Sometime later the Jinnouchi family celebrate their victory as well as Sakae's birthday, rather than a funeral, and Natsuki kisses Kenji on the cheek.
