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Akira [DVD]

Japan, 1987
film

Akira is set in Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is rebuilding after World War III. Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high-school dropouts, are members of a joy-riding motorcyc..

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Akira

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Akira. Akira: production report

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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams = Dreams

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Dreams

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Ghost in the shell (D)

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Drunken angel

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Tokyo drifter

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Tetsuo: the iron man

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The Animatrix

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Kamikaze taxi (D)

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Neon Genesis Evangelion Collection

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