Popularity: 3 (history)
Director: | Mamoru Hosoda |
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Writer: | Satoko Okudera, Mamoru Hosoda |
Staring: |
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth. | |
Release Date: | Aug 01, 2009 |
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Director: | Mamoru Hosoda |
Writer: | Satoko Okudera, Mamoru Hosoda |
Genres: | Animation, Science Fiction |
Keywords | artificial intelligence (a.i.), card game, hacker, virtual reality, computer, family holiday, adult animation, anime |
Production Companies | KADOKAWA Shoten, Madhouse, Warner Bros. Japan, Nippon Television Network Corporation, VAP, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, D.N. Dream Partners, Studio Chizu |
Box Office |
Revenue: $18,434,328
Budget: $0 |
Updates |
Updated: Oct 08, 2025 Entered: Oct 08, 2025 |
Name | Character |
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Ryunosuke Kamiki | Kenji Koiso (voice) |
Hitomi Miyauchi | Natsuki Shinohara (voice) |
Mitsuki Tanimura | Kazuma Ikezawa (voice) |
Sumiko Fuji | Sakae Jinnouchi (voice) |
Ayumu Saito | Wabisuke Jinnouchi (voice) |
Takahiro Yokokawa | Takashi Sakuma (voice) |
Kiyomi Tanigawa | Yukiko Shinohara (voice) |
Mutsumi Sasaki | Kazuo Shinohara (voice) |
Mieko Nobusawa | Mariko Jinnouchi (voice) |
Takuya Kirimoto | Riichi Jinnouchi (voice) |
Sakiko Tamagawa | Rika Jinnouchi (voice) |
Ichiro Nagai | Mansuke Jinnouchi (voice) |
Takashi Kobayashi | Tasuke Jinnouchi (voice) |
Yutaka Shimizu | Shota Jinnouchi (voice) |
Kaori Yamagata | Naomi Miwa (voice) |
Tagame Tamura | Kiyomi Ikezawa (voice) |
Tadashi Nakamura | Mansaku Jinnouchi (voice) |
Yoji Tanaka | Yorihiko Jinnouchi (voice) |
Hashiya Nakamura | Kunihiko Jinnouchi (voice) |
Mitsutaka Itakura | Katsuhiko Jinnouchi (voice) |
Eiko Kanazawa | Noriko Jinnouchi (voice) |
Chigusa Takaku | Nana Jinnouchi (voice) |
Riisa Naka | Yumi Jinnouchi (voice) |
Naoto Adachi | Ryohei Jinnouchi (voice) |
Rikito Ota | Yuhei Jinnouchi (voice) |
Yuki Imai | Shingo Jinnouchi (voice) |
Sumire Morohoshi | Mao Jinnouchi (voice) |
Hinano Minagawa | Kana Jinnouchi (voice) |
Name | Job |
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Kentaro Yayama | Compositing Artist |
Shigeru Nishiyama | Editor |
Yasuyuki Konno | Sound Effects |
Mina Okazaki | Character Designer |
Shigeru Fujita | Animation Director |
Takayuki Hamada | Key Animation |
Keiko Itogawa | Special Effects |
Kenji Hachizaki | Key Animation |
Hiroko Minowa | Key Animation |
Kouichi Arai | Key Animation |
Ayako Hata | Key Animation |
Mami Yamaguchi | Key Animation |
Soichiro Matsuda | Key Animation |
Nobumasa Shinkawa | Key Animation |
Yuki Hayashi | Key Animation |
Shigeaki Miyata | Compositing Artist |
Satoko Okudera | Screenplay |
Akihiko Matsumoto | Original Music Composer |
Tatsuro Yamashita | Theme Song Performance |
Takashi Okazaki | Character Designer |
Hiroyuki Aoyama | Animation Director, Key Animation |
Tatsuzo Nishida | Animation Director, Key Animation |
Ayumi Arahata | Special Effects |
Nobutake Ito | Key Animation |
Hideki Takahashi | Key Animation |
Jun Sekiguchi | Key Animation |
Akitoshi Yokoyama | Key Animation |
Miwa Sasaki | Key Animation |
Mitsuko Baba | Key Animation |
Aya Takano | Key Animation |
Yuzo Yamada | Key Animation |
Hideaki Yoshio | Key Animation |
Takashi Hashimoto | Key Animation |
Keisuke Masunaga | Key Animation |
Naruyo Kiriyama | Background Designer |
Toshiharu Mizutani | Background Designer |
Hitoshi Nagasaki | Background Designer |
Mika Nishimura | Background Designer |
Naoto Abe | Background Designer |
Kei Machida | Compositing Artist |
Naomi Takahashi | Compositing Artist |
Atsuro Saito | Compositing Artist |
Yukihiro Masumoto | Director of Photography |
Chikako Kamata | Color Designer |
Masaru Hamada | Character Designer |
Kunihiko Hamada | Animation Director |
Kumiko Taniguchi | Special Effects |
Chiemi Irisa | Special Effects |
Hiroshi Kawaguchi | Key Animation |
Chie Uratani | Key Animation |
Yoshiyuki Ito | Key Animation |
Yasunori Miyazawa | Key Animation |
Michiyo Suzuki | Key Animation |
Yoshihiro Kitano | Key Animation |
Yasuhiro Nakura | Key Animation |
Sawako Miyamoto | Key Animation |
Atsuko Tanaka | Key Animation |
Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru | Key Animation |
Katsushi Aoki | Background Designer |
Shinichi Uehara | Background Designer |
Satoko Nakamura | Background Designer |
Takashi Muratani | Key Animation |
Hiromasa Ogura | Background Designer |
Yoshikazu Fukutome | Background Designer |
Ayumi Kawai | Background Designer |
Yasuhiro Asagi | Compositing Artist |
Kozue Okada | Music Producer |
Keiko Ishizuka | Compositing Artist |
Natsuko Sato | Compositing Artist |
Tomohiko Ito | Assistant Director |
Yoji Takeshige | Art Direction |
Kazuo Oga | Background Designer |
Mamoru Hosoda | Director, Story |
Yoshio Obara | Sound Recordist |
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto | Character Designer |
Anri Jojo | Art Designer |
Kazutaka Ozaki | Animation Director, Key Animation |
Kaori Kobayashi | Special Effects |
Tomohisa Shimoyama | Key Animation |
Ryotaro Makihara | Key Animation |
Ken Ootsuka | Key Animation |
Kumiko Kawana | Key Animation |
Michio Fukuda | Key Animation |
Takafumi Hori | Key Animation |
Takaaki Hirayama | Key Animation |
Masako Sato | Key Animation |
Tadashi Matsuzaki | Key Animation |
Takashi Mukoda | Key Animation |
Yumi Ishii | Background Designer |
Shiho Sato | Background Designer |
Kazuyuki Hashimoto | Background Designer |
Yuji Ikeda | Background Designer |
Akane Iwakuma | Background Designer |
Izumi Muta | Background Designer |
Kenji Fujita | Compositing Artist |
Yuki Kawashita | Compositing Artist |
Masayuki Onoue | Music Editor |
Kang Myoung-joo | Compositing Artist |
Kanako Yamada | Compositing Artist |
Naoki Tate | Key Animation |
Hiroyuki Inage | Thanks |
Koji Shinomiya | Thanks |
Shougo Furuya | Key Animation |
Tadashi Sakazaki | Key Animation |
Junko Ina | Background Designer |
Yoichi Nishikawa | Background Designer |
Kuniko Iwatani | Background Designer |
Tadashi Abiru | Key Animation |
Seiko Yoshioka | Background Designer |
Ayami Aritake | Background Designer |
Kohei Tanada | Compositing Artist |
Hitomi Sudo | Assistant Editor |
Yukiya Imamura | Compositing Artist |
Shigeki Nemoto | Compositing Artist |
Mamiko Katakura | Music Editor |
Yuji Furuya | Foley |
Naoki Akahira | Foley |
Masayasu Arimatsu | Other |
Name | Title |
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Nozomu Takahashi | Producer |
Takuya Ito | Producer |
Yuichiro Saito | Producer |
Takashi Watanabe | Producer |
Seiji Okuda | Executive Producer |
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Popularity History
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2024 | 4 | 24 | 34 | 15 |
2024 | 5 | 26 | 34 | 18 |
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Trending Position
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2025 | 10 | 971 | 971 |
It’s really quite apposite to watch this film at a time when governments across the world are merrily acquiescing to the demands of global tech to facilitate the rampant advance of AI. This story quite cleverly illustrates just how easily a collection of “Will Hunting” types can be used to crack eve ... n the most complex (2,000 digit) numeric code and allow nefarious access to a global network which manages just about everything we do - from using our phones to firing a nuclear missile. It’s bright spark - but maybe just a touch inept - “Kenji” who has accepted a task that is definitely not what he was expecting from “Natsuki” and so finds himself at her grandmother’s ninetieth birthday luncheon posing as her beau. A bit of a nervous wreck, he is later presented with an online puzzle by “OZ”, the network in question and he manages to message back a solution. Next thing we all know, it’s been hacked by an increasingly violent AI that is bent on a quest for knowledge and power, and that will stop at nothing. When poor old “Kenji” is identified and gets the blame, only an unique sort of intervention from granny and a solid series of team efforts from her family and from his friends might enable them to thwart this menacing creation. The animation starts off with images that reminded me of one of those childhood kaleidoscopes that brought vibrant crystalline shapes together, before heading full pelt into a frequently quite pithily comedic look at family traditions, teenage hormones and menacing nasties threatening the entire fabric of the internet. You’ll possibly never see a more potent cinematic demonstration of just how dependent and inter-dependant we are on this network of cables and zeroes and ones for much, if not most, of modern life. Not just our social lives, but our actual lives too are controlled and once control of that falls into malevolent hands, well humanity risks being well and truly stuffed. The last half hour focuses a little more on dealing with that problem, and the quickly paced action animation is underpinned by a plausible degree of science too. In many ways, it’s almost a horror movie - especially if you think on it: first love or online demons?