If you loved The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, try Summer Wars
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Mamoru Hosoda, and they both carry the foreign gem, playful mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Summer Wars is
Teenage math prodigy Kenji gets hired for a summer gig pretending to be his crush’s fiancé at her family’s birthday reunion. His equation-solving accidentally lets an AI loose in the real world. A brainy teen and a 90-year-old matriarch team up to stop it.
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