Akira [Region 2]
by Katsuhiro ?tomo
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Actor: Hiroshi ?take, Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Tessh? GendaDirector: Katsuhiro ?tomo
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Movie Reviews of Akira [Region 2]
Movie Review: blu-ray akira...FINALLY
Summary: 5 Stars
not the original voice over im used to, but thats a minor detail. the actual transfer, the picture quality is amazing.
Summary of Akira [Region 2]
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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