Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
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.
อากีรา ไม่เหมือนคน, 아키라, 光明战士阿基拉, 亚基拉, アキラ, AKIRA：1988, 폭풍 소년, Акира, آکیرا, אקירה, അകിര, АКИРА, 阿基拉, Ακίρα, Акіра, อากิระ คนไม่ใช่คน, أكيرا, Chúa Tể Akira, აკირა
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well how are they going to have the olympics now
"The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads. There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves."
Akira is one of the most important Japanese animated films of all time, and not simply because of the technical landmark it achieved in hand-drawn animation. It is an attempt to speak about one of the most unspeakable tragedies in human history, and to deal with the nature of atomic power and with historical change as such. The narrative begins with an image of a massive explosion devastating the city of Tokyo, but while the location is different and a title card claims that this is the beginning of World War III, there's no mistaking the…
Accidentally got way way too stoned before turning this on and didn't have the mental faculties to read the subtitles so I spent the entire movie just looking at this thing. Have you ever just LOOKED at Akira????? Holy shit
that finale is still one of the most terrifying things i've ever seen in my life
I really just didn’t know what was going on 90% of the time.
take a shot every time kaneda says “tetsuo” + every time tetsuo says “kaneda”
what the hell
94/100
An aggressive tour de force of influential animation, tangible world-building, inferiority complexes, biker gangs, giant teddy bears, and overwhelming sequences of violence. It stays burrowed in your psyche, ruining a certain, seemingly simple nerve and, in the blink of an eye, shifting perspective and rendering previous knowledge meaningless. Strangely enough, this is only the second time I've seen Akira, with the first being my "initiation" (age 11) via a dubbed VHS copy, but I can't imagine spending more than a year away from this film ever again. It's a horrifyingly grandiose tragedy piece, melding flesh and metal, revolutions and minuscule angst, mind and body, rubber and pavement into a Nuclear aftermath of neon and rubble. In spite of its countless influences (Metropolis, 2001, A Clockwork Orange to name a few), there's nothing quite like it.
Probably the most galvanic and visceral example of a nation's collective psychic fallout since Honda's GODZILLA. Simultaneously dreading and anticipating a return to power.
Akira is one of those films that I appreciate more than I like. The animation is very good and several of the messages it wants to convey are solid, but I wasn't completely connected to its characters and although entertaining it wasn't completely emotionally satisfying for me.
Tetsuo the Iron Man
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
That moment when your ego boost doesn’t help you in Neo-Tokyo so you have to play God elsewhere by creating your own universe.
