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Uniform Title Akira (Motion picture : 1988)
Title Akira.
Edition Special edition.
Published Australia : Distributed by Madman Entertainment, 2001.
©1988.
Description 1 DVD-video (124 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Notes Catalogued from container.
Madman Entertainment : MANV5004.
First released in Japan in 1988.
Based on the graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo.
Special features: digitally remastered picture, one touch menu navigation, animated menu gallery, new and original English dub, Akira production report, US theatrical trailer, Japanese trailers.
Credits Character design, script and direction by Katsuhiro Otomo ; English adaptation by Michael Haller ; producers, Ryohei Suzuki and Shunzo Kato.
Performers Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama.
Summary A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.
Target audience note Censorship classification : M15+.
System details DVD video ; Dolby Digital 5.1/2.0 ; PAL ; Region 4 ; Anamorphic 16:9.
Language note English and Japanese soundtracks with optional subtitles in English.
Subjects Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, -- 1954- Film adaptations
Motorcycle gangs -- Drama
Psychokinesis -- Drama
Insurgency -- Drama
Animated films -- Japan
Animation (Cinematography) -- Japan
Tokyo (Japan) -- Drama
Genre Cyberpunk films
Dystopian films
Animated films
Feature films
Fiction films
Film adaptations
Other Names Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954- director, creator.
Haller, Michael adaptor.
Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954-. Akira Motion picture adaptation of (work):
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