Akira R
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Funimation Prod
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | |
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama | |
Produced by | Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato & Sawako Noma |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 8/10 --
Handsome and preposterously ambitious, and even its worst narrative missteps are a factor of that ambition.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
The movie, even at 124 minutes, has the densely packed sweep and go-for-it pep of a pop epic.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
While its typically convoluted sci-fi plotting and sprawling ensemble of characters occasionally lead it to border on the incoherent, it's hard not to be in awe of the giant hand-drawn cityscapes that make up the backdrop for the eye-popping action.
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Little White Lies
...A phenomenal work of animation with all the hallmarks of an instant cult classic...
New York Times
Rating: 5/5 --
It continues to show the best of the genre, almost 30 years later. It would be sacrilegious to give a different rating from PERFECT to AKIRA. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cine Premiere
Moments that can only be captured as animation make Akira still worth watching: gusts of wind from chopper blades, ka-tooming bursts of fiery explosions, Tetsuo's visions.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
...The movie's strengths are speed, attitude and incessant dazzle -- so much so that this expensive post-World War III urban fantasy is widely regarded as Japan's greatest animated feature...
USA Today
Product Description:
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.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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Animation
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Big Battles
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Classic
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Fantasy
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Live-Action
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Psychic Forces
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Science-Fiction
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Epic
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Anime
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1980s
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Essential Cinema
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- UPC: 704400094194
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