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Akira
Sign in to save1988 film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
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7.9A 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.
Cast
- Mitsuo Iwata as Shotaro Kaneda (voice)
- Nozomu Sasaki as Tetsuo Shima (voice)
- Mami Koyama as Kei (voice)
- Taro Ishida as Colonel Shikishima
- Mizuho Suzuki as Doctor Ônishi
- Tessyo Genda as Ryûsaku (voice)
Themes
- army
- street gang
- saving the world
- total destruction
- experiment
- general
- megacity
- atomic bomb
- stadium
- underground
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Akira
- Score
- 8.16/10 (565,602 votes)
- Rank
- #497
- Popularity
- #209
- Type
- Movie
- Episodes
- 1
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studios
- Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Japan, 1988. An explosion caused by a young boy with psychic powers tears through the city of Tokyo and ignites the fuse that leads to World War III. In order to prevent any further destruction, he is captured and taken into custody, never to be heard from again. Now, in the year…
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Screenplay by
- Katsuhiro Otomo Izo Hashimoto
- Based on
- Akira , by Katsuhiro Otomo
- Produced by
- Ryōhei Suzuki Shunzō Katō
- Starring
- Mitsuo Iwata Nozomu Sasaki Mami Koyama Taro Ishida Tesshō Genda Mizuho Suzuki Tatsuhiko Nakamura Fukue Itō Kazuhiro Shindō
- Cinematography
- Katsuji Misawa
- Edited by
- Takeshi Seyama
- Music by
- Shōji Yamashiro
- Production company
- Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co., Ltd.
- Distributed by
- Toho
- Release date
- July 16, 1988 ( 1988-07-16 )
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Budget
- ¥700 million – ¥1.1 billion/$5.7 million
- Box office
- $49 million
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Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Based on
- Akira
- Main subject
- frenemy
- Director
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Screenwriter
- Izō Hashimoto
- Voice actor
- Masato Hirano
- Composer
- Tsutomu Ōhashi
- Production company
- Toho
- Duration
- 124
- FilmAffinity ID
- 144113
- Performer
- Geinoh Yamashirogumi
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.bandaivisual.co.jp/akira
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- Commons category
- Akira (manga)
- publication date
- 1991-05-09
- name in kana
- アキラ
- film editor
- Takeshi Seyama
- distributed by
- Disney+
- different from
- Akira
- film format
- 35 mm film
- intended public
- seinen
- review score
- 8.0/10
- capital cost
- 5500000
- title
- アキラ
- fabrication method
- traditional animation
- set in environment
- stadium
- set in period
- World War III
- narrative motif
- cyborg
- box office
- 2263389400
- form of creative work
- feature film
Sources (15)
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Encyclopedic overview
Akira (Japanese: アキラ, pronounced [aꜜkiɾa]) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga Akira. Set in a dystopian 2019, it tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires powerful telekinetic abilities after colliding with a child esper in a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo.
While most of the character designs and settings were adapted from the manga, the plot differs considerably and does not include much of the latter half of the manga, which continued publication for two years after the film's release. The soundtrack, which draws heavily from traditional Indonesian gamelan and Japanese noh music, was composed by Shōji Yamashiro and performed by Geinoh Yamashirogumi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.