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Akira

Name: Akira
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction, Action
Released: 1988
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Taro Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki

A 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.

1988 · Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo · 124 min · Animation · Science Fiction · Action · 52 frames

Tagline

Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.

Crew

Screenplay: Izo Hashimoto, Katsuhiro Otomo
Cinematography: Katsuji Misawa
Edited by: Takeshi Seyama
Music: Shoji Yamashiro
Produced by: Shunzo Kato, Ryohei Suzuki

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)
Koichi Kitamura as Priestess Miyako / Council A (voice)
Yuriko Fuchizaki as Kaori (voice)
Masaaki Okura as Yamagata (voice)
Takeshi Kusao as Kai (voice)

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Studios: MBS, Sumitomo Corporation, TOHO, Kodansha
Budget: $5,700,000
Box office: $56,725,538
Themes: army, street gang, saving the world, total destruction, experiment, general, megacity, atomic bomb, stadium, underground

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