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Mood:
- AtmosphericStylizedExcitingBleakSuspenseful
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Plot:
- Anti HeroesGangSupernatural AbilityRescueRebelliousnessChaos and MayhemExperiment Gone AwryFuture Dystopia more...
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Genres:
- ActionAnimationSci-FiForeignAnime
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Time/Period:
- 21st CenturyFuture
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Place:
- AsiaJapanTokyo
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- ClassicCritically AcclaimedEssential
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Style:
- EpicSurreal
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Based on:
- Based on Comics
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- SeriousFantastic
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Flag:
- Brief NudityViolent Content
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Akira, 1988
Japanese
Japan
Profile of Akira
Akira can be described as stylized, atmospheric, and exciting. The plot revolves around rebelliousness, a future dystopia, and chaos and mayhem. The main genres are foreign, action, and animation. In terms of style, Akira anime, is epic, and is surreal. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It is located in Tokyo. Akira is adapted from a comic. The movie has received attention for being a classic, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that Akira involves brief nudity and violent content.
Summary of Akira
A landmark film that introduced much of the Western world to modern animé, AKIRA is a marvel of modern animation. Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's 2,000 page manga, AKIRA begins on July 16, 1988, when what was believed to be an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and marking the beginning of WWIII. Thirty-one years later, Neo-Tokyo has sprung from the ruins of the old city and is experiencing a prolonged period of civil unrest caused by student uprisings, political instability, and, most destructively, biker gangs. One of the members of these biker gangs, Tetsuo, is detained by the military after a near accident with a strange young boy. After recognizing innate psychic ability in him, the military begins using Tetsuo as a test subject to channel Akira, a source of unimaginable power and the cause of the explosion that destroyed the original Tokyo. However, the military's plan backfires, and instead of locating the source of Akira's power, Tetsuo becomes a medium for it. Endowed with incredible psychic powers that make every one of his destructive impulses a reality, Tetsuo begins to go on a rampage that threatens to completely annihilate Neo Tokyo. Combining a complex science-fiction universe with intricately detailed animation and phantasmagoric images, AKIRA is a stunning visual experience and a disturbing vision of the future.
Details
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country: | Japan |
| Release date: | 19 October 1990 |
| Runtime: | 124 min |
Cast and Crew
as Shôtarô Kaneda
as Tetsuo Shima
as Kei
as Ryûsaku
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
Users Reviews
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