In 1988, the landmark Anime film Akira, by director Katsuhiro Otomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains a landmark achievement in cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption. .. Read more
| Starring | Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda |
|---|---|
| Director | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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In 1988, the landmark Anime film Akira, by director Katsuhiro Otomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains a landmark achievement in cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption.
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda's motorcycle gang encounters a military operation to retrieve an escaped experimental subject. The military captures Tetsuo and conducts experiments on him that unleash his latent psychic ability, but when these new powers rage out of control, Tetsuo lashes out at the world that has oppressed him!
| Starring | Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda, Hiroshi Ôtake |
|---|---|
| Director | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Studio | MANGA ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 20 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Dubbed | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | Production year: 1988 To Rent: DVD: 18 Mar 2002 |
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Be careful if you order Akira as it comes in two DVDs with the same feature on it. If you want to watch the digitally remastered version there is no point in ... read more »
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Where's the film?!
Received a disc which was just bonus features...
Unless I was too stupid to work out how to play the movie.
Disappointing.
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Wow with a hint of what?!
The first thing that needs to be said about this film is that it looks great. The detail shows just how much effort and care was put in to this film.
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Amazing
If you watched this on VHS and/or TV many years ago, you might be slightly dissapointed by voices in this version.
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Akira - Digitally Remastered
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