In 1988, the landmark Anime film AKIRA, by director Katsuhiro Otomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, AKIRA remains a landmark achievement in cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption. Pioneer Entertainment proudly presents this classic film, completely restored and digitally re-mastered.Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda's motorcycle gang encounters a military operation to retrieve an escaped experimental subject. The military captures Tetsuo and conducts experiments on him that unleash his latent psychic ability, but when these new powers rage out of control, Tetsuo lashes out at the world that has oppressed him!
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Mitsuo Iwata | Kaneda Shôtarô |
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Nozomu Sasaki | Tetsuo Shima |
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Mami Koyama | Kei |
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Tessh Genda | Ryû |
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Hiroshi Ôtake | Nezu |
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Kôichi Kitamura | Lady Miyako |
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Michihiro Ikemizu | Inspector |
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Yuriko Fuchizaki | Kaori |
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Masaaki Ôkura | Yamagata |
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Tarô Arakawa | Eiichi Watanabe |
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Takeshi Kusao | Kai |
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Kazumi Tanaka | Army |
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Masayuki Katô | Engineer Sakiyama |
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Yôsuke Akimoto | Harukiya Bartender |
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Masato Hirano | Yûji Takeyama |
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Yukimasa Kishino | Mitsuru Kuwata |
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Kazuhiro Kamifuji | Masaru (No. 27) |
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Tatsuhiko Nakamura | Takashi (No. 26) |
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Fukue Itô | Kiyoko (No. 25) |
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Issei Futamata | Takaba |
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Kôzô Shioya | Miyako Follower |
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Michitaka Kobayashi | Additional Voices |
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Hideyuki Umezu | Additional Voices |
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Satoru Inagaki | Additional Voices |
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Kayoko Fujii | Girl A |
| Director | Katsuhiro Otomo |
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| Writer | Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto | |
| Producer | Shunzo Kato, Yoshimasa Mizuo, Sawako Noma, Ryohei Suzuki | |
| Musician | Shoji Yamashiro | |
| Photography | Katsuji Misawa | |
| Edition | THX Remastered |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | 1.78:1 |
| Audio Tracks | English Dolby Digital 5.1 Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | Pioneer |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jul 24, 2001 |
| Regions | Region 1 |