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Akira
1988
In 1988, the landmark Anime flim Akira, by director Katsuhiro Otomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains a landmark achievement in cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption. Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda's motorcycle gang encounters a military operation to retrieve an escaped experimental subject. The military captures Tetsuo and conducts experiments on him that unleash his latent psychic ability, but when these new powers rage out of control, Tetsuo lashes out at the world that has oppressed him!
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JBscale
83
Excellent
Film Detail
Genre
Animation
- Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Length
2 hrs. 4 mins.
US Theatrical Release
July 24, 2001
US Box Office
$553,171
(#6203 of 7273)
Global Office
$80,000,000
(#1939 of 4175)
Rating
R
Restricted
Collection Detail
Edition
2-Disc 25th Anniversary Edition & Digital
Resolution | Digital Platform
Fandango at Home
Aspect Ratio
WS 1.85:1
Audio
English (Dubbed):
DD 5.1
English (Dubbed):
Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Japanese:
Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Japanese:
DD 2.0 Surround
Studio
Pioneer
Released
November 12, 2013
Acquired Date
April 28, 2014
Times Seen
2 Times
Last Watched
August 6, 2025
Actors
Mitsuo Iwata
Nozomu Sasaki
Mami Koyama
Tesshô Genda
Hiroshi Ohtake
Kôichi Kitamura
Michihiro Ikemizu
Yuriko Fuchizaki
Masaaki Ôkura
Tarô Arakawa
Takeshi Kusao
Joshua Seth
Johnny Yong Bosch
Wendee Lee
Matthew Mercer
Michael Lindsay
Bob Bergen
Barbara Goodson
Cam Clarke
Jan Rabson
Tony Pope
Lara Cody
Directors
Katsuhiro Ôhtomo
Producers
Haruyo Kanesaku
Shunzo Kato
Yutaka Maseba
Ryohei Suzuki
Hiroe Tsukamoto
Writers
Katsuhiro Ôhtomo
Izô Hashimoto
Awards & Accolades
2018 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #250
2019 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #245
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Restoring Akira
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Akira Production Report
Akira Sound Clip
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91%
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54 votes
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8,610 votes
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68
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8.0/10
212,420 votes
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