Akira
- soylentmatt21 de marzo de 2026This movie is gorgeous and is dripping with style, and clearly earns its status as one of the most important movies ever made. It's also dark and sort of oppressively melancholy. Obviously you should know that going in, but the movie opens with an violent fight between biker gangs in a cyberpunk cityscape that is SO phenomenal it is impossible not to feel some degree of joy watching it, but then the rest of the movie... As gorgeously animated as it may be... Labors as hard as it can to crush the joy out of you. The movie isn't paced with the sort of rising tension / heroes journey / whatever that I think most audiences expect. Instead it's kind of holding your head down underwater while watching the light blink out of your eyes like Shamu drowning his trainer by her ponytail. If that's what your into .. or, you know, you're interested in watching one of the greatest feats of filmmaking ever performed... Then this is for you.
- Peter Bickford17 de agosto de 2025Groundbreaking Anime and hugely influential for sure. Definitely worth a close watch or two. That said, this American for one, would argue that it would be much improved by trimming about 30 minutes from the theatrical cut. Heck, were it possible, put together a 3.5 hour version for manga/anime completists; the current cut suffers pacing-wise from half-movie and half manga series.
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Akira was released on 16 de julio de 1988.
Akira was directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.
Akira has a runtime of 2h 4min.
Akira was produced by Shunzo Kato, Ryohei Suzuki.
Corre el año 2019. Un estado policial, políticos tramposos, sectas religiosas, revolucionarios y un proyecto científico secreto se combinan para causar una atmósfera explosiva en Neo-Tokyo. Todos los grupos rivales quieren controlar a Akira, un chico con extraños poderes psíquicos que ha sido mantenido bajo custodia criogénica por más de 30 años. En medio de esta tensa atmósfera, un joven psíquico llamado Tetsuo libera a Akira.
The key characters in Akira are Shotaro Kaneda (voice) (Mitsuo Iwata), Tetsuo Shima (voice) (Nozomu Sasaki), Kei (voice) (Mami Koyama).
Akira is rated 12.
Akira is a Ciencia ficción, Animación, Action film.
Akira has an audience rating of 9 out of 10.
Akira had a budget of 5,7 MUS$.
Akira has made 49 MUS$ at the box office.