Akira (Collector's Case) (Blu-ray + 2-DVD) R
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
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Also released as:
Akira
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: June 6, 2017
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Funimation Prod
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | |
Edited by | Takeshi Seyama | |
Produced by | Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato & Sawako Noma |
Entertainment Reviews:
Grade-school violence freaks may find a few kicks here, but even they may have trouble coping with this ugly movie's ending about eight separate times.
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Chicago Reader
...Parts of AKIRA are as well directed as anything you'll ever see...
Entertainment Weekly
The movie, even at 124 minutes, has the densely packed sweep and go-for-it pep of a pop epic.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 5/5 --
It continues to show the best of the genre, almost 30 years later. It would be sacrilegious to give a different rating from PERFECT to AKIRA. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cine Premiere
Moments that can only be captured as animation make Akira still worth watching: gusts of wind from chopper blades, ka-tooming bursts of fiery explosions, Tetsuo's visions.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
5 stars out of 5 -- Pretty much every frame delivers startling new peaks of animation, and the sheer ambition of the thing takes the breath away.
Total Film
Rating: 3/4 --
[Akira] is a blast and a half, a twisted dystopian parable of violence and rock and roll, Japanese-style. It's Disney on PCP, mean, rotten, psychotic, but incredibly vivid.
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Baltimore Sun
Product Description:
A landmark film that introduced much of the Western world to modern animé, AKIRA is a marvel of modern animation. 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. Thirty-one years later, Neo-Tokyo has sprung from the ruins of the old city and is experiencing a prolonged period of civil unrest caused by student uprisings, political instability, and, most destructively, biker gangs. One of the members of these biker gangs, Tetsuo, is detained by the military after a near accident with a strange young boy. After recognizing innate psychic ability in him, the military begins using Tetsuo as a test subject to channel Akira, a source of unimaginable power and the cause of the explosion that destroyed the original Tokyo. However, the military's plan backfires, and instead of locating the source of Akira's power, Tetsuo becomes a medium for it. Endowed with incredible psychic powers that make every one of his destructive impulses a reality, Tetsuo begins to go on a rampage that threatens to completely annihilate Neo Tokyo. Combining a complex science-fiction universe with intricately detailed animation and phantasmagoric images, AKIRA is a stunning visual experience and a disturbing vision of the future.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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Animation
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Big Battles
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Classic
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Fantasy
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Live-Action
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Psychic Forces
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Science-Fiction
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Epic
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Anime
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1980s
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Essential Cinema