Akira [Blu-ray]
by Katsuhiro ?tomo
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Actor: Hiroshi ?take, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Tessh? GendaDirector: Katsuhiro ?tomo
Brand: INFINITY RESOURCES INC
Writer: Katsuhiro ?tomo
Producer: Haruyo Kanesaku
Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto
Producer: James Yosuke Kobayashi
Producer: Ryohei Suzuki
Producer: Sawako Noma
Writer: Iz? Hashimoto
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby TrueHD 5.1; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Animated, Color, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Honneamise
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- Storyboards
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Movie Reviews of Akira [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Complete WASTE!!!! AVOID....
Summary: 1 Stars
The debate over which English dub rages on even still. Outside of the original Japanese voices, the Streamline VHS dub is by far the greatest. Not only because it was first and has nostalgic quality, but the actors were just plain better.
From what I gather, the BluRay release is the Pioneer (horrible) version. BUT it is sampled at the highest quality sound ANY BluRay has so far! But who cares, it's just TrueHD sound of a terrible dubbing job.
And what's worse is there is the THIRD English dub everyone overlooks! The Sony PSP had a UMD release of Akira that had an entirely NEW English dub that was REALLY good!
Why are two great dubs overlooked in favor of Pioneer's disaster of a job?! Because it is sampled higher? I hope there is a better reason.
I still have my Streamilne VHS copy and I'll take that ANY day over this atrocity.
And why couldn't we have ALL dubs as options?! It's a BluRay! It's not like we don't have the room! Make everyone happy!
Until I get my Streamline dub, NO SALE!
Summary of Akira [Blu-ray]
A SECRET MILITARY PROJECT ENDANGERS NEO-TOKYO WHEN IT TURNS A BIKER GANG MEMBER INTO A RAMPAGING PSIONIC PSYCHOPATH THAT ONLY TWO KIDS AND A GROUP OF PSIONICS CAN STOP.Artist-writer Katsuhiro ?tomo began telling the story of Akira as a comic book series in 1982 but took a break from 1986 to 1988 to write, direct, supervise, and design this animated film version. Set in 2019, the film richly imagines the new metropolis of Neo-Tokyo, which is designed from huge buildings down to the smallest details of passing vehicles or police uniforms. Two disaffected orphan teenagers--slight, resentful Tetsuo and confident, breezy Kaneda--run with a biker gang, but trouble grows when Tetsuo start to resent the way Kaneda always has to rescue him. Meanwhile, a group of scientists, military men, and politicians wonder what to do with a collection of withered children who possess enormous psychic powers, especially the mysterious, rarely seen Akira, whose awakening might well have caused the end of the old world. Tetsuo is visited by the children, who trigger the growth of psychic and physical powers that might make him a superman or a supermonster. As befits a distillation of 1,318 pages of the story so far, Akira is overstuffed with character, incident, and detail. However, it piles up astonishing set pieces: the chases and shootouts (amazingly kinetic, amazingly bloody) benefit from minute cartoon detail that extends to the surprised or shocked faces of the tiniest extra; the Tetsuo monster alternately looks like a billion-gallon scrotal sac or a Tex Avery mutation of the monster from The Quatermass Experiment; and the finale--which combines flashbacks to more innocent days with a destruction of Neo City and the creation of a new universe--is one of the most mind-bending in all sci-fi cinema. --Kim Newman
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