Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Mitsuo Iwata | ... | Kaneda (voice) | |
Nozomu Sasaki | ... | Tetsuo (voice) | |
Mami Koyama | ... | Kei (voice) | |
Tesshô Genda | ... | Ryu (voice) | |
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Hiroshi Ôtake | ... | Nezu (voice) |
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Kôichi Kitamura | ... | Lady Miyako / Committee A (voice) |
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Michihiro Ikemizu | ... | Inspector / Committee I (voice) |
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Yuriko Fuchizaki | ... | Kaori (voice) |
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Masaaki Ôkura | ... | Yamagata (voice) |
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Tarô Arakawa | ... | Army / Committee G / Eiichi Watanabe (voice) |
Takeshi Kusao | ... | Kai (voice) | |
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Kazumi Tanaka | ... | Army (voice) |
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Masayuki Katô | ... | Engineer Sakiyama / Committe D (voice) |
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Yôsuke Akimoto | ... | Harukiya Bartender (voice) |
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Masato Hirano | ... | Committee F / Spy / Yûji Takeyama / Terrorist (voice) |
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 grantss
I was probably around 8, when I first saw Akira. It was my step dad who asked me if I was interested in watching this Japanese cartoon. I expected something like, my favorite children movies like The Lion King or The Land before Time.
Akira however, was something else. At the time I was to young to understand English, since it was a second language for me. But I remember what kind of an affect it had on me. It was brutal, it was hard, it was edgy. The drums and Neo Tokyo lights flew through my little body as butter, as I witnessed death, gore and sadistic killings. Something my pure and innocent eyes had never seen before. And yet I was strangely excited. I was never tough as a kid. I was a afraid of the dark and often had nightmares about all kinds of things. But Akira, despite it's mature nature, just had me in awe. When I finally re-saw it many years later, when I was an old teenager, I was still in awe.
Akira is simply a wonderful and entertaining sci-fi movie. It was what introduced me to anime, and innovation in a hole new way. If you want to start watching anime or see, what all the fuss is about, then Akira is a good place to start. Even though it's over 17 years old today, it is still a fantastic and visually stunning animation. Even if you don't appreciate animation you owe it to yourself, to check it out. It has spectacular action, motorcycle-chase-sequences, mad scientists and tons of blood and shooting.
8/10