Akira
1988, Sci fi/Anime, 2h 4m
51 Reviews 100,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Akira is strikingly bloody and violent, but its phenomenal animation and sheer kinetic energy helped set the standard for modern anime. Read critic reviews
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Cast & Crew
Shôtarô Kaneda
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Tetsuo Shima
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Kei
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Ryûsaku
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Nezu
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Priestess Miyako, Council A
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Critic Reviews for Akira
All Critics (51) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (5)
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The opening motorbike chase is still thrilling, but the dedication to the backgrounds as well as crowds of people filling the screen, explosions happening in the distance, and a jaw-dropping sense of scope make Akira the classic that it is.
January 25, 2021 | Rating: A | Full Review… -
Akira's strangeness is very startling and sometimes bewildering. But there is a thanatonic rapture to its vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else.
October 8, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
While its typically convoluted sci-fi plotting and sprawling ensemble of characters occasionally lead it to border on the incoherent, it's hard not to be in awe of the giant hand-drawn cityscapes that make up the backdrop for the eye-popping action.
July 18, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Pounding away, it becomes monotonous.
April 10, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
Plenty of superb recent blockbusters, including The Matrix, The Dark Knight, Minority Report, Dark City and Inception, are all in its debt - not to mention a fair number of shockers, like Star Wars Episode II and the most recent Resident Evil atrocity.
June 25, 2011 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… -
Put it up there with the most astonishing animated features ever made.
June 24, 2011 | Rating: 4/5
Audience Reviews for Akira
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Jul 02, 2019Original and dark film that will sit with you long after it concludes. Visually stunning film that leaves most films for dead. Cerebral filmmaking that is still one of the most interesting films ever created. I'm happy I found this and sad it took so long. This deserves all the recognition it garnered. I'm hoping an upcoming remake can recapture the ambition here, but I'm a little sceptical it can be done. 17/06/2019Brendan N Super Reviewer
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Aug 19, 2016Dazzling, frenetic, audacious and insane. This movie gave me at least half a dozen things I had never seen in my life. You feel kind of dazed and blinded when it's over. My partner tells me that the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion is even better and darker than Akira though... to which I replied "How the heck can it be darker than this?!"Letitia L Super Reviewer
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Jun 25, 2016I loved and enjoyed the manga. Looks iconic and inpressing.Film C Super Reviewer
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Mar 05, 2015"Akira" is a lot of fun, thanks to dazzling animation and some seriously entertaining attitude.Joshua H Super Reviewer
Akira Quotes
| Tetsuo (Japanese Version): | Kaneda! |
| Kaneda (Japanese Version): | That's 'Mr. Kaneda' to you, punk! |
| Kaneda (Japanese Version): | That's Mr. Kaneda to you, punk! |
| Tetsuo (Japanese Version): | I am Tetsuo. |
| Kai (Japanese Version): | WAAAAAAAAH?! KANADAAAAAAA!!! YOUR'RE ALIVE!!! I thought you were there, I thought your're in there for sure. |
| Kai (Japanese Version): | WAAAAAAAAH?! KANADAAAAAAA! YOUR'RE ALIVE! I thought you were there, I thought your're in there for sure. |
| Yamagata (Japanese Version): | Yeah Right! Drink your dog piss? |
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