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📅 1988 ⏱ 2h 4min R Released FHD / 4K

Akira

AKIRA

"Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E."

AnimationScience FictionAction

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

🎬 DirectorKatsuhiro Otomo

📅 Release1988-06-10

🌍 CountryJapan

🗣 LanguageJapanese

🏢 StudioMBS, Sumitomo Corporation, TOHO

🗳 Votes4,712

🔥 Popularity10

💰 Budget$5,700,000

💵 Revenue$49,000,000

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🎭 Cast

Mitsuo Iwata

Shotaro Kaneda (voice)

Nozomu Sasaki

Tetsuo Shima (voice)

Mami Koyama

Kei (voice)

Taro Ishida

Colonel Shikishima

Mizuho Suzuki

Doctor Ônishi

Tessyo Genda

Ryûsaku (voice)

Koichi Kitamura

Priestess Miyako / Council A (voice)

Yuriko Fuchizaki

Kaori (voice)

Masaaki Okura

Yamagata (voice)

Takeshi Kusao

Kai (voice)

Kazuhiro Kamifuji

Masaru / No. 27 (voice)

Tatsuhiko Nakamura

Takashi / No. 26 (voice)

Fukue Itô

Kiyoko / No. 25 (voice)

Yuka Ôno

Girl C (voice)

Hiroshi Otake

Nezu (voice)

🎥 Crew

Director of Photography Katsuji Misawa

Screenplay Izo Hashimoto

Editor Takeshi Seyama

Music Editor Hiruhiko Ono

Director Katsuhiro Otomo

Producer Shunzo Kato

Original Music Composer Shoji Yamashiro

Sound Designer Keiji Muraki

Executive Producer Sawako Noma

Key Animation Yoshinobu Michihata

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🏷 Keywords

armystreet gangsaving the worldtotal destructionexperimentgeneralmegacityatomic bombstadiumundergroundmutationdystopia

💬 Reviews

Ted Fraraccio ⭐ 10/10

Let's make one thing clear right off the bat: this review is gonna be positive. _Akira_ is not only my favorite anime but my favorite animated film bar none and one of my favorite films in general. Katsuhiro Otomo has crafted an animated sci-fi actioner for adults that's good, great in fact, a rarity since the vast majority of "adult" animation fails miserably by relying on dopey sex jokes and idi…

badelf ⭐ 10/10

It has been said that when Oppenheimer witnessed the first atom bomb test, he said, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." This may actually be a mis-translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, which deals with illusion and impermanence. Nevertheless, the sentiment that great achievement in science, like great power, carries great responsibility, remains true. Yet to date, homo sapiens has con…

Filipe Manuel Neto ⭐ 2/10

**Technically very good, but so confusing that it doesn't work.** I'm 33 years old and my childhood saw the popularization of Japanese anime in Europe and the West thanks to hits like “Dragon Ball” and others. However, I have to say that, even as a child, I hated this type of highly stylized animation, so different from what I was used to seeing. Even so, it is necessary to grant this fi…