Title: Akira
Original Title: Akira
Year: 1988
Info
- Country: Japan
- Length: 124 Minutes (2 hours 4 min)
- Budget: €9,691
- Genre: Animation Science fiction
- Studios: Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS)
- Distributor: Toho Company
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: September 16 2016
- United States: October 19 1990
Plot
'Akira' takes us to the year 2019 in Neo-Tokyo, a city built on the ancient Japanese capital destroyed after World War. Japan is a country on the brink of collapse faced in ongoing political crisis. Secretly, a team of scientists has reactivated by order of the army an experiment to find subjects that can control the ultimate weapon: a force called "absolute power". But the inhabitants of Neo-Tokyo have other things to worry about. One is Kaneda, a young gang leader of a gang of bikers. During a fight, his best friend, Tetsuo suffers a freak accident and ends joined some military installations. Scientists discover that there is the possessor of absolute power. But Tetsuo not resign itself to become a guinea pig ... and very soon become the greatest threat the world has ever known.
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