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 |
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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 LTD. |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 20 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Animated, Anime |
| Language | DVD: English, Finnish, French, Italian Blu-ray: Japanese |
| Dubbed | Japanese |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish Blu-ray: English |
| Released | Production year: 1988 To Rent: DVD: not available Blu-ray: 27 Jun 2011 To Buy: 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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Boo Hiss
Stars are for the film but why can't this be streamed online? Far too few films are available online here. As a new customer it's disappointing.
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Excellent all over again.
Timeless anime that helped kick off western interest in the genre in a big way. Biggest change in the HD feature is the sound quality, it is amazing. Marginal ... read more »
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AKIRA: Bigger, Badder and Louder!!!
After going to Sci Fi London and watching Akira on the cinema screen with the Hypersonic soundupgrade and picture in HD, when I got my new TV and Blu Ray player... read more »
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Akira - Digitally Remastered
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