Director: Hosoda Mamoru
Script: Satoko Okudera
Editor: S. Nishiyama
Animation Director: Hiroyuki Aoyama
Sound: Yasuyuki Konno
Music: A. Matsumoto
Art Director: Youji Takeshige
Sound: Yoshio Obara
Cast: Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji, Ayumu Saitô, Nanami Sakuraba, T. Yokokawa
Production: Madhouse Pictures, Warner Entertainment Japan
Distribution:
Eurozoom
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75009 Paris
France
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Year: 2009
Screening: 2011
35 mm, Colour, 114 min,
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
Official Selection Berlin Film Festival 2010
Welcome to the world of OZ: the community platform of internet. Connecting themselves through a computer, a TV or a phone, millions of avatars become the largest social network for a new life beyond the limits of reality. Kenji, a shy college boy exceptionally gifted for mathematics, gets a summer job in OZ maintenance department. To his great surprise, beautiful Natsuki, the girl he dreams of, proposes to accompany him to her native town Nagano. He is taken to the traditional party of the Jinnouchi clan. He soon understands that Natsuki invited him only to play the part of the ‘fiancé-to-be’ and to make the right impression for her grand-mother. At the same time, a virus attacks OZ and creates a serial of catastrophes on the global level. Lead by Kenji, the whole Jinnouchi clan starts a real family crusade to save the virtual world and its inhabitants… ‘If today people of the whole world are able to communicate with each other, why should they not be able to unite against a threat?” “I think that for the first time the hero of an action film is a family.”
