Akira

IMDb link: 0094625
IMDb rating: 8 (226,294 votes)
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama, Fantasy, Animation
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda and others

Release date: 16 Jul 1988
Release year: 1988
Runtime: 124 minutes
Country: Japan
Keywords: cyberpunk, biker gang, based on manga, military, supernatural power, post apocalypse, anger, psychic, post thermonuclear war, mutation

Plot:

Neo-Tokyo, 2019. Thirty years after World War III, the futuristic metropolis is suffocating under corruption and chaos. While the government battles frequent uprisings, the motorcycle gang of which young Tetsuo is caught in the middle of a military operation to retrieve an escaped subject with secrets worth killing for. As the run-in with the law turns sour, twisted experiments unleash something monstrous within Tetsuo. But what is the mysterious Akira Project? If the boy is no longer the weakling everyone knew, can battered Neo-Tokyo survive the storm that is coming?

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