Country: JAP
Technical: col 124m
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Cast: animated
Synopsis:
In a Tokyo of the future, a biker gang member acquires superhuman telekinetic abilities after an accident, and the authorities consider how to stop him before the city is engulfed in a new cataclysm similar to the one previously triggered by another with gifts very like his: Akira.
Review:
Extremely hard to follow, and therefore synopsize, this early anime feature (with animation notably less sophisticated than it would become) is based on the writer-director's own manga (comic). It was tremendously influential on cyberpunk and a sleeper success on VHS video in the eighties. On its own terms it is your standard dystopian ride, with youth culture, speed and spectacle high in the visibility stakes.
Country: JAP
Technical: col 124m
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Cast: animated
Synopsis:
In a Tokyo of the future, a biker gang member acquires superhuman telekinetic abilities after an accident, and the authorities consider how to stop him before the city is engulfed in a new cataclysm similar to the one previously triggered by another with gifts very like his: Akira.
Review:
Extremely hard to follow, and therefore synopsize, this early anime feature (with animation notably less sophisticated than it would become) is based on the writer-director's own manga (comic). It was tremendously influential on cyberpunk and a sleeper success on VHS video in the eighties. On its own terms it is your standard dystopian ride, with youth culture, speed and spectacle high in the visibility stakes.
