Neo-Tokyo is about to explode. Old gods return to do battle with Akira and something more than comic book ultra-violence is unleashed. Read more
| Starring | Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda |
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| Director | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Run time | 200 mins |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema |
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In 2019, some 31 years after the destruction of Tokyo in WWIII, the rebuilt city is in chaos. Pill-popping biker gangs... read more on Time Out
"...A phenomenal work of animation with all the hallmarks of an instant cult classic..."
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 ordering the original feature as well.
I last saw this film an absolute age ago and i thought i would introduce my wife to it, she wasn`t sure at all. But yep, she enjoyed it. This is a grim, violent and bloody view of the future. This animated film was groundbreaking when it was released and it has lost none of it`s power with age. If anything it shows that in this day of computer generated images more traditional 2d animation can still kick cgi butt. Best watched in japanese with subtitles as the american english dubbed voiceover can be irritating. But other than that it`s a classic of not just Manga animation but of film in general.
Leonard DiCaprio's shingle Appian Way is in discussions with Warner Bros to develop the latest film in the NeverEnding Story saga. The studio acquired the rights to the property and a remake of the 25-year-old movie is on the cards. Wolfgang Petersen directed the original fantasy tale, which saw a boy called Bastian Balthazar Bux discover a parallel world which is crumbling as people in the real world become less imaginative. It has since spawned two sequels, the second of which debuted in the... Read more