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Akira
Japan - 1987
Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
In this nihilistic view of the future, the famous Akira of comics fame explodes onto the screen in a fusion of art and craft. Experiments on children with E.S.P. get out of hand, forcing the government to authorize the dropping of an atomic bomb on Tokyo. Rising from the ashes, gigantic Neo-Tokyo faces new perils as the experiments continue.
Requiring over 150,000 cels of animation, Katsuhiro Otomo, widely regarded as the "God of manga", provides a seamless transition from static to animated style. This is the film that is credited with inspiring the invasion of Japanese animation, or anime, into western culture. Already regarded as a classic, Akira delivers a powerful story along with the exceptional animation and massive rock soundtrack.
"A remarkable technical achievement in every respect" - Variety
Runtime: 124 Minutes
Guest Comments
From: "kenada"
"i loved akira,it is the best anime movie i have ever seen
and beleive me i have seen a lot,i wish they would make more of the movie like a part 2 or
if i could get any thing from the internet of it,if you can help me e-mail me
please!!!!!!!
thank you"
From: "kai"
"akira is the greatest japanimation/anime/ whatever the hell you want to call it that has ever been made and i think that no one in their right mind would disagree- though there are many contestants for the close second. to make a sequel would be such an abomination that it would entirely disrupt the greatness of the original. examples of the case in mind are that of escape from new york, the crow, carrie and other decent movies that were littered and completely overshadowed by the downfall of their shitty sequels."
From: "wwcox"
"i think akira was the phats move i ever sen and that's for real!!!"
From: "myhoshi"
"awesome","out of all the animations i've seen this was the most awesomest
one!!!!!!!!!!"
From: "Chamor"
"Akira is by far the best animation movie of all times and will be hard to beat. A must see for everyone who has half a brain."
From: "Yzayak"
"Nothing out-does Akira....Nothing..."
From: "ALEX YOSHIDONU"
"AKIRA IS FAR BY THE BEST ANIMATION I LIKE IF I WAS SISKEL AND EBERT I'D GIVE TWO THUMBS UP! (WISHPER OF THE ORIENT) ASIAN PRIDE LIFE FOR EVER!"
From: "Ste"
"Akira:the best movie of all time that everyone has copied!!!!!!!"
From: "Hungry_Wolf"
"Even the fuckin Dubbed version kix ass!","This kid right here, a full
blooded american say's that AKIRA is the shit!!The story and the animation is the best
fuckin anime that I've ever seen. I've even read the books and the manga but this top's it
all!!!!! WE want more, Be true to your asian roots! I wish I had em! PeAcE
OuT!"
From: "Ragle"
"It's Not even the Begining"
"Katsuhiro Otomo is simply the hardest working, most talented and original man in
sequential art. He is nothing short of genius. Anything and everything that can be
said cannot even begin to explain the quality of his work. Both the graphical part and the
narrative part. He is a true god. He infuses into his work every and all details of
the problems and questions of human existence, from the most trite and regional to the
most deep and universal difficultly. His taste for cinematography is elegantly,
effectively graceful. Only under him and Phillip K. Dick's careful guidance, science
fiction has been given the chance to show its true maturity.
After Akira (which in manga form alone is formidably admirable, penned from 1982
'till 1993) he did other films including a film version of Memories, he is
currently developing Steam Boy for BANDAI using 3 billion yen and sophisticated
Computer Graphics. "Time hurts"
From: "MANNIX"
"SATORI is all that I can say. Not only a graphical masterpiece, but also a mindbogglin' storyline. One has to have seen the movie at least twice to fully understand it's morale."
From: "sull"
"Akira is the shit! fuck all....it conveys a message to rise against all the fucked
up shit that the government does and fuck it all up... it's a wake up call to
experimentation to LSD and that even the government trips"
From: "flush"
"Cyberpunk is da shit!","Oh yes, this movie is the best anime ever created.
It's not for nothing that Katsuhiro Otomo is called the god of manga. This movie has such
a high amount of speed in it, it is very cool. Perfect created characters, not the
averagehero vs. bad guy movie! Oh and that soundtrack is very very cool!
Especially dolls polyphony. But there's one thing: The book is much much much
better! The book is more dramatic and much longer, it doesn't end when Kaneda and Kai find
Akira (who is a real boy in the book). It actually just starts then! Every selfrespecting
otaku should have read it!! "
From: "Akira"
"Akira is the best and most impressive film I have never seen !!!"
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