Akira (1988)

• 124 min

7.9

Neo-Tokyo is about to E·X·P·L·O·D·E

Directed by: Katsuhiro Otomo
Casting: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tarō Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki, Tessyo Genda, Koichi Kitamura, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Okura, Takeshi Kusao, Kazuhiro Kamifuji, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Fukue Itô, Yuka Ôno, Hiroshi Ôtake, Kazumi Tanaka, Masato Hirano, Masayuki Katô, Michihiro Ikemizu, Tarô Arakawa, Masami Toyoshima, Anthony Pulcini, Travis Weaver, Cody Mackenzie
Countries: Japan
Premiere: 1988-06-10
Status: Released

Tags: army, street gang, saving the world, total destruction, experiment, general, megacity, atomic bomb, stadium, underground, mutation, dystopia, cyberpunk, based on manga, motorcycle gang, adult animation, psychotronic, anime, philosophical, 2010s, excited, vibrant

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.