Akira

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.

Cast

Mitsuo Iwata

as Shotaro Kaneda (voice)

Nozomu Sasaki

as Tetsuo Shima (voice)

Mami Koyama

as Kei (voice)

Tarō Ishida

as Colonel Shikishima

Mizuho Suzuki

as Doctor Ônishi

Tessyo Genda

as Ryûsaku (voice)

Koichi Kitamura

as Priestess Miyako / Council A (voice)

Yuriko Fuchizaki

as Kaori (voice)

Masaaki Okura

as Yamagata (voice)

Takeshi Kusao

as Kai (voice)

Reviews

Ted Fraraccio

Let's make one thing clear right off the bat: this review is gonna be positive. _Akira_ is not only my favorite anime but my favorite animated film bar none and one of my favorite films in general. Katsuhiro Otomo has crafted an animated sci-fi actioner for adults that's good, great in fact, a rarit...

badelf

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...

Filipe Manuel Neto

**Technically very good, but so confusing that it doesn't work.** I'm 33 years old and my childhood saw the popularization of Japanese anime in Europe and the West thanks to hits like “Dragon Ball” and others. However, I have to say that, even as a child, I hated this type of highly stylized anim...

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