Akira
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- Movies, Animation, Action Adventure, Science Fiction, Classic
Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. The movie led the way for the growing popularity of anime in the West, with Akira considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime fandom that began in the early 1990s.
The movie tells about a secret military project endangering Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.
Where to watch it?
Full movie - G-Video
Comments & Critics
Violence and blood in many scenes of the movie.