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#5,927 All-time worldwide
#175 2009 releases

Movie profile

Summer Wars

2009 · 114 min · Madhouse

Animation Science Fiction
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $18.4M
Budget —
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ROI —

Domestic gross

$7.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$10.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.4M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Summer Wars ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #5,927 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2009 releases #175 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 2009. Studio / company #1 Madhouse of 3 titles Position inside the mapped Madhouse movie set. Primary genre #562 Animation of 920 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Summer Wars (2009) perform at the box office?

Medium confidence

Summer Wars (2009) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $18.4M. In this database it currently ranks #5,927 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #175 among 2009 releases.

Worldwide gross
$18,434,328
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 1, 2009
Production
Madhouse, Nippon Television Network Corporation, KADOKAWA Shoten
Countries
JP

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyMadhouse Release year chart2009 box office Genre chartAnimation Genre chartScience Fiction

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2009, Summer Wars is positioned in this dataset as a Animation, Science Fiction title from Madhouse. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $18.4M. For comparison, it currently sits #5,927 all-time in the current chart set and #175 among 2009 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.