Akira

Japan, 1988

Film
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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.

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Credits

director

Katsuhiro Otomo

author

Katsuhiro Otomo

producer

Haruyo Kanesaku

Hiroe Tsukamoto

Ryohei Suzuki

Shunzo Kato

Yoshimasa Mizuo

Yutaka Maseba

production company

Akira Committee Company Ltd.

Bandai Entertainment Inc.

Kodansha

MBS

Studio Aoi

Studio Fuga

Sumitomo Corporation

TMS Entertainment

TOHO

production design

Hiroshi Ohno

Kazuo Ebisawa

Koji Ono

Yuji Ikehata

screenplay

Izo Hashimoto

Katsuhiro Otomo

Duration

02:04:00

Production places
Japan
Production dates
1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-149

Language

Japanese

Subject categories

Action

Animation

Science Fiction

TMDB-Movie

149

Wikidata

Q1905968

Collected

194 times

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