Japanese Animation Director Mamoru Hosoda to promote SUMMER WARS in Singapore

Award-winning Japanese animation director Mamoru Hosoda will be in Singapore from 19 to 22 November 2009, to participate in the AAC’09 (Animation Asia Conference 2009) as well as promote his latest animation blockbuster hit SUMMER WARS – the highly anticipated follow-up to his previous work THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME. SUMMER WARS focuses on a timid 17 year-old math genius who has been falsely implicated in the hacking of a virtual world and with the aid of a classmate's extensive family, must prevent the real and computer-simulated worlds from colliding. SUMMER WARS is co-distributed by Encore Films and Cathay-Keris Films in Singapore. The film is slated for a commercial release on 25 February 2010.