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Akira

Akira

Animation · Science Fiction · Action · 1988

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.

Movie details

Akira

“Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.”

1988 Animation · Science Fiction · Action 2h 4m

Critical arithmetic

One number, for now.

TMDB

7.9 / 10

Community rating

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.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Katsuhiro Otomo

Written by

Izo Hashimoto · Katsuhiro Otomo

Mitsuo Iwata

Mitsuo Iwata

Shotaro Kaneda (voice)

Nozomu Sasaki

Nozomu Sasaki

Tetsuo Shima (voice)

Mami Koyama

Mami Koyama

Kei (voice)

Taro Ishida

Taro Ishida

Colonel Shikishima

Mizuho Suzuki

Mizuho Suzuki

Doctor Ônishi

Tessyo Genda

Tessyo Genda

Ryûsaku (voice)

Koichi Kitamura

Koichi Kitamura

Priestess Miyako / Council A (voice)

Court is in session

Put Akira on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.