Summer Wars

32 Movies Like Summer Wars (2009) You Need to Watch Next

2009·Mamoru HosodaiRank74
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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

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If you loved Summer Wars (2009) by Mamoru Hosoda, here are 32 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Paprika. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.

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