A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.
Director:
Satoshi Kon
Stars:
Megumi Hayashibara,
Tôru Emori,
Katsunosuke Hori
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner.
"Memories" is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, "Magnetic Rose," four space travelers are drawn into an abandoned spaceship that contains a world created by ... See full summary »
2019. 31 years after being destroyed during World War 3, Tokyo (now 'Neo-Tokyo') has been rebuilt and is a thriving metropolis. Shotaro Kaneda is the leader of a biker gang. His friend Tetsuo is injured in an accident and taken to a top-secret government facility. He develops telekinetic powers but decides to use them for evil rather than good. He has the same powers as Akira, the force that destroyed Tokyo in 1988, and now it appears that history will repeat itself.Written by
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A German music project named Sunbeam had a huge hit in 1995 with a rave song, that included the samples "You know we aren't meant to exist in the outside world" and "I've come to get you" from the English version of the movie. Those lines are spoken by Masaru to Takashi, when he appears right after Tetsuo crashed his bike into Takashi's power shield. See more »
Goofs
In a long shot of Nezu discussing Kaneda's usefulness to the resistance movement with Ryu, a passing-by couple appears to be walking towards the same set of steps that Nezu and Ryu are about to descend. However, in the next shot, the couple is walking up a flight of steps on the other side of Nezu and Ryu. See more »
The date of the first coming of Akira is the exact same date as it was released originally in Japan. See more »
Alternate Versions
The Madman Entertainment DVD and Blu-ray releases of this movie in Australia contain both English audio tracks in addition to the original Japanese track. The DVD version is also THX certified. See more »
I love Akira. I have loved Akira's action and sense of anarchy ever since Is aw it on TV 20 years ago and bought the DVD soon after.
It is fantastic.
Like everything the hollywood bandits are remaking it. BOYCOTT that! Do not feed hollywood's stealing attempts from Japan. They will destroy it as always. they will not understand Akira, they will whitewash, they will get a Hollywood 'star' and it will SUCK of course.
DOWN with remakes
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I love Akira. I have loved Akira's action and sense of anarchy ever since Is aw it on TV 20 years ago and bought the DVD soon after. It is fantastic. Like everything the hollywood bandits are remaking it. BOYCOTT that! Do not feed hollywood's stealing attempts from Japan. They will destroy it as always. they will not understand Akira, they will whitewash, they will get a Hollywood 'star' and it will SUCK of course. DOWN with remakes