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Release Date: 1988   Duration: 125 min

Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Michihiro Ikemizu, Taro Ishida, Masato Hirano, Yuka Ohno, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kazumi Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Masayuki Katô, Kazuhiro Kamifuji ...MORE

Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Michihiro Ikemizu, Taro Ishida, Masato Hirano, Yuka Ohno, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Kazumi Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Masayuki Katô, Kazuhiro Kamifuji, Masami Toyoshima, Kōichi Kitamura, Tesshō Genda, Masaaki Ōkura, Sachie Itō, Mizuho Suzuki, Hiroshi Ohtake, Kayoko Fujii, Yukimasa Kishino, Tarô Arakawa, Yōsuke Akimoto, Kōzō Shioya, Takeshi Kusao ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Science Fiction, Japanese Movies, Epic film, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Dystopia

Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and featuring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo's manga Akira, focusing mainly on the first half of the story. The film depicts a dystopian version of the city of Tokyo in the year 2019, with cyberpunk...  MORE

Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, and featuring the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama and Taro Ishida. The screenplay is based on Otomo's manga Akira, focusing mainly on the first half of the story. The film depicts a dystopian version of the city of Tokyo in the year 2019, with cyberpunk tones. The plot focuses on teenage biker Tetsuo Shima and his psychic powers, and the leader of his biker gang, Shotaro Kaneda. Kaneda tries to prevent Tetsuo from releasing the imprisoned psychic Akira. While most of the character designs and settings were adapted from the original 2182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the last half of the manga. The film became a hugely popular cult film and is widely considered to be a landmark in Japanese animation. LESS