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Akira

Movie
1988
2h 4m
R
Japanese
Animation, Science Fiction, Action
User Score: 
8.1
Critic Score: 
79
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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.
Akira Poster

Akira

R
Movie
1988
2h 4m
Japanese
Animation, Science Fiction, Action
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.
Rating
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8.1
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Akira (1988) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
79

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Mitsuo Iwata
Shotaro Kaneda (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
Tetsuo Shima (voice)
Mami Koyama
Kei (voice)
Tessyo Genda
Ryûsaku (voice)
Koichi Kitamura
Priestess Miyako / Council A (voice...
Yuriko Fuchizaki
Kaori (voice)
Masaaki Okura
Yamagata (voice)
Takeshi Kusao
Kai (voice)
Kazuhiro Kamifuji
Masaru / No. 27 (voice)
Tatsuhiko Nakamura
Takashi / No. 26 (voice)
Fukue It
Kiyoko / No. 25 (voice)
Yuka no
Girl C (voice)
Hiroshi take
Nezu (voice)
Kazumi Tanaka
Army (voice)
Masato Hirano
Committee F / Spy / Yûji Takeyama ...
Masayuki Kat
Engineer Sakiyama / Committe D (voi...
Michihiro Ikemizu
Inspector / Committee I (voice)
Tar Arakawa
Army / Committee G / Eiichi Watanab...
Directed By: Katsuhiro Otomo
Written By: Katsuhiro Otomo (Screenplay), Izo Hashimoto (Screenplay)

Featured Comments/Tips

Oen386 says...
11 years ago
I guess it was pretty shocking for when it was released, but I personally didn't find the story enjoyable. There are a few pieces of the story they slowly reveal, but nothing was really interesting/exciting to me. Maybe I have seen too many similar movies that have improved upon the formula since this was released.
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AlexanderZ says...
9 years ago
As it was said: classic/legend/masterpiece. Nothing to add.
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shanytc says...
12 years ago
Awesome movie!!!!!
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CallMeTrimTab says...
6 years ago
This film is a masterpiece. Every few years I look to see if there is any new Anime out there of equal scope and quality, and am completely disappointed. To the haters who watch Akira and didn't "get" it, you shouldn't mistake your own lack of comprehension for a lack of meaning. One needs to watch Akira a few times to really piece together what is happening. This is not a Hollywood film. It will not spoon feed you a convenient plot with happy endings. But if you put a little effort into it, this movie will deliver. Pro-tip: Don't watch the English overdub, do subtitles. The Japanese voice actors deliver powerful performances. Also the subtitles make a lot more sense than the English overdub, as by necessity, the writers must hack on a script quite a bit to make the voice over fit into the pace and rhythm of the film. This is why overdubs almost always lose meaning, in addition to making the lips look silly.
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Featured User Reviews

xaliber
8/10  one year ago
The difficulty in watching classics is to judge them fairly in the time they were released.

The positive side is, while I have limited knowledge of 1980s animation, it is not too hard to see how the _Akira_ excels in the animation quality, even today, particularly in the very first sequences with More
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MisterX867
8/10  5 years ago
Well I just watched this for the very 1st time and I can already tell that this is a film that needs to be watched more than once to be fully understood and appreciated. When you watch this you really have to make sure that you're completely focused on it. Honestly from the moment the plot start More
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AndrewBloom
CONTAINS SPOILERS9/10  4 years ago
[8.4/10] The hardest thing for a movie to do isn’t to convey an idea or to convey a feeling; it’s to do both at once. There’s the rational part of our minds that ferrets out plot and theme, and there’s a more instinctive side that connects more closely to the feel of a given moment or story More
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badelf
4 months ago
It has been said that when Oppenheimer witnessed the first atom bomb test, he said, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." This may actually be a mis-translation of the Bhagavad-Gita, which deals with illusion and impermanence. Nevertheless, the sentiment that great achievement in science More
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