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91% Tomatometer 54 Reviews 90% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after ...
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Oct 6, 2020 · The landmark Japanese cyberpunk animation from 1988 re-emerges as a deeply strange nightmare about destruction and rebirth
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- Peter Bradshaw
During a fight with a rival gang, a strange, small boy with a wrinkled face enters the fray. Tetsuo is hospitalized, where a colonel and a doctor discover that Tetsuo has remarkable powers, recalling a mysterious entity known as AKIRA, that has lain dormant for 30 years.
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Barbara Goodson, Bob Bergen, Cam Clarke
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Akira, whilst violent for the medium, is a lush metropolis of gang warfare, a psuedo examination into the possible, and a fantasy tale of elements long lost in modern cinema. A cool, entertaining piece littered with cult visions and awesome bikes. 124 out of 164 found this helpful.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval score of 91% based on 54 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " Akira is strikingly bloody and violent, but its phenomenal animation and sheer kinetic energy helped set the standard for modern anime."
- ¥700 million / $5,7 million
- July 16, 1988
- Ryōhei Suzuki, Shunzō Katō
- Shōji Yamashiro
Akira - Metacritic. 1989. R. Streamline Pictures. 2 h 4 m. Summary Based on Katsuhiro Otomo's 2,000 page manga, Akira begins on July 16, 1988, when what was believed to be an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and marking the beginning of WWIII. Animation.
