Akira Collection
1988
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 |
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| Director | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Akira Collection
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 | |
| Genres | Animated, Anime, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Dubbed | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 18 Mar 2002 Production year: 1988 |
| Format | DVD |
Akira Collection (2 discs) (1988)
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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
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"...A phenomenal work of animation with all the hallmarks of an instant cult classic..."
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83 out of 89 people found this review helpful
Careful
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.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Wow!
I first saw this movie when I was around eleven years old and to be quite honest, couldn't follow it at all. The action sequences were great but without an understanding of the deep plot and symbolism of Akira I pretty much ignored it until I got the urge to rent it just recently. This time round being twenty years old I understood it all and the film blew me away. It's fantastic from start to glorious finish and a must see for all movie fans, not just manga fans.
Note though that its far better to watch this in japanese with subtitles than the dodgy american dubbed version. -
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