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Rating: 9 stars

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international film series ifs Japan tokyo punk muenzinger auditorium gang motorcycle biker experiment double cross terrorism protest superpowers

All movies seen on 04/27/2023

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Akira (1988)

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

Science Fiction | Thriller | Disaster

Most recently watched by lordofthemovies, sensoria, archstanton43, schofizzy, Javitron

Overview

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Rated R | Length 124 minutes

Actors

Mitsuo Iwata | Nozomu Sasaki | Mami Koyama | Tesshou Genda | Kōichi Kitamura | Yuriko Fuchizaki | Masaaki Ōkura | Takeshi Kusao | Kazuhiro Kamifuji | Tatsuhiko Nakamura | Fukue Itô | Yuka Ôno | Hiroshi Ohtake | Kazumi Tanaka | Masato Hirano | Masayuki Kato | Michihiro Ikemizu | Tarô Arakawa | Masami Toyoshima | Anthony Pulcini | Travis Weaver | Cody Mackenzie

Viewing History (seen 4 times)

Viewing Notes

IFS had pull AKIRA off the schedule at the request of the licensing distributors so it became a secret screening. Which wasn’t really a secret screening. Funny how that works. But it was free show due to all this drama. Also the second largest attended screening I’ve been to there. Great to see that and knowing they came out for AKIRA.

This was the print from UCLA so I’ve seen it three times now, twice at Music Box and once at Muenzinger. Lot of scratches but those colors still pop. Animation masterpiece. Just realized that my every log of this film has been a theatrical screening. Guess I need to view this at home someday!

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