A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a gro... Read allA secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
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Mitsuo Iwata
- Shôtarô Kaneda
- (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
- Tetsuo Shima
- (voice)
Mami Koyama
- Kei
- (voice)
Tesshô Genda
- Ryû
- (voice)
Hiroshi Ôtake
- Nezu
- (voice)
Kôichi Kitamura
- Lady Miyako
- (voice)
- …
Michihiro Ikemizu
- Inspector
- (voice)
- …
Yuriko Fuchizaki
- Kaori
- (voice)
Masaaki Ôkura
- Yamagata
- (voice)
Tarô Arakawa
- Eiichi Watanabe
- (voice)
- …
Takeshi Kusao
- Kai
- (voice)
Kazumi Tanaka
- Army
- (voice)
Masayuki Katô
- Engineer Sakiyama
- (voice)
- …
Masato Hirano
- Yûji Takeyama
- (voice)
- …
Yukimasa Kishino
- Mitsuru Kuwata
- (voice)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was one of the first Japanese anime films to have the characters' voices recorded before they were animated. While this is the typical practice in U.S. animation, in Japan the animation is generally produced first.
- GoofsAfter the unnamed man escorting Takashi uses himself as a shield to protect him, Takashi apparently has spots of blood on his head, but as he gets up we see that blood was on the pavement and overlapped Takashi's head due to an animation error.
- Crazy creditsThe date of the first coming of Akira is the exact same date as it was released originally in Japan.
- Alternate versions2001 re-release of the English language includes a new English dub script and voice cast.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Akira: Production Report (1988)
- SoundtracksTokyo Shoeshine Boy
Performed by Teruko Akatsuki
Featured review
I really wanted to like this movie
I really wanted to like this movie, I heard from everyone that it was an anime classic and I had seen screenshots that looked really cool. In the end I was disappointed.
The movie was hand drawn and it looked amazing no doubt about that, I could stare at still from this movie all day long, it's the other things that bothered me.
The story is a mess. I loved the first act, seeing this cyberpunk city was really cool, seeing the gangs and everything. After that the movie turned into a anime horror movie, which I don't feel fit the tone at all. The whole Akira thing was confusing as hell, they never explained it, everyone was asking the whole movie "What is Akira?" The third act dragged out so much, things that were happening didn't make sense at all. The end was just a mess with destruction everywhere, but no story to tell about it.
The soundtrack was also annoying. Some of the songs were cool, but they play them almost 7 or 8 times in the movie, which wears out the song and just makes it ambient noise.
This might be only the English dub, but the dubbing was horrible. The words were off the mouth movements and the voice actors were bad. In intense scenes the voice actors never gave an intense feel.
For a classic there were some big problems. The story could have been more direct and made more sense. In fact, they could have just made the movie about the city and the gangs fighting and that would have made it better. With the movie how it is, they could have cut it down to take out the dragging on of the end. Akira just ended up losing my interest near the end, making it not as interesting as I thought it would be.
The movie was hand drawn and it looked amazing no doubt about that, I could stare at still from this movie all day long, it's the other things that bothered me.
The story is a mess. I loved the first act, seeing this cyberpunk city was really cool, seeing the gangs and everything. After that the movie turned into a anime horror movie, which I don't feel fit the tone at all. The whole Akira thing was confusing as hell, they never explained it, everyone was asking the whole movie "What is Akira?" The third act dragged out so much, things that were happening didn't make sense at all. The end was just a mess with destruction everywhere, but no story to tell about it.
The soundtrack was also annoying. Some of the songs were cool, but they play them almost 7 or 8 times in the movie, which wears out the song and just makes it ambient noise.
This might be only the English dub, but the dubbing was horrible. The words were off the mouth movements and the voice actors were bad. In intense scenes the voice actors never gave an intense feel.
For a classic there were some big problems. The story could have been more direct and made more sense. In fact, they could have just made the movie about the city and the gangs fighting and that would have made it better. With the movie how it is, they could have cut it down to take out the dragging on of the end. Akira just ended up losing my interest near the end, making it not as interesting as I thought it would be.
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Akira: The Special Edition
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- ¥1,100,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $553,171
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,263
- Jan 1, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $3,283,934
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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