Akira (Geneon Signature Series)
by Katsuhiro ?tomo
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Actor: Hiroshi ?take, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Tessh? GendaDirector: Katsuhiro ?tomo
Writer: Katsuhiro ?tomo
Producer: Haruyo Kanesaku
Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto
Producer: James Yosuke Kobayashi
Producer: Ryohei Suzuki
Producer: Sawako Noma
Writer: Iz? Hashimoto
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, THX
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
Movie Reviews of Akira (Geneon Signature Series)
Movie Review: Great picture, lame English dub
Summary: 2 Stars
Had a chance to look at this Blu-ray release of what is arguably the greatest Anime movie ever created. After the thoroughly disappointing Pioneer release on DVD, I was hoping somebody would have gotten a clue and included the original English audio track (as the Region 4 DVD release does).
Alas, this version only provides the "new" English audio track -- the politically correct version made just for America. What's the point of having 50GB of room if you can't even include the original English track? I don't recommend this for anybody who really cares about the film. 5 stars for the improved picture, but minus 3 for the horrible "new" English audio track being the only option. Wanna produce dubs for repressed Americans? Then start making your own animated movies!
Summary of Akira (Geneon Signature Series)
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 NewmanAnimation DVD Video
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