Akira – 4K Reissue (15)
Relive one of the most influential Sci-Fi stories ever told, 35 years after it introduced UK audiences to the cinematic spectacle and powerful stories of anime. Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark cyberpunk epic Akira is exploding back onto cinema screens.
Rebuilt from the ashes of World War III, Neo-Tokyo is a breathtaking, neon-lit metropolis where lawlessness and corruption run rampant. Racing through its streets are Kaneda and Tetsuo, two delinquents and members of a biker gang. When they crash into a secret government plot and Tetsuo is experimented on, the result is an explosive, mesmerising masterpiece of animation that would change cinema forever.
(Image ©1988 MASH・ROOM / AKIRA COMMITTEE All Rights Reserved)
- Director
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Cast
- Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
- Duration
- 124 min
- Opening
- Fri 17 Apr
- Year
- 1988
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Subtitles
- English
Certificate: 15
The gold standard of anime feature films
