AKIRA: SPECIAL EDITION (WIDESCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1988
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation, Anime, Foreign, Horror, Science-Fiction, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: The Masterpiece Returns!; ; 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!
• Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda, Hiroshi Ôtake, Kôichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Masaaki Ôkura, Tarô Arakawa, Takeshi Kusao, Kazumi Tanaka, Masayuki Katô, Yôsuke Akimoto, Masato Hirano, Yukimasa Kishino, Kazuhiro Kamifuji, Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Fukue Itô, Issei Futamata, Kôzô Shioya, Michitaka Kobayashi, Hideyuki Umezu, Satoru Inagaki, Kayoko Fujii, Masami Toyoshima, Yuka Ôno, Tarô Ishida, Mizuho Suzuki, Bob Bergen, Cam Clarke, Watney Held, Steve Kramer, Melora Harte, Lewis Lemay, Jan Rabson, barbara goodson, Eddie Frierson, Lara Cody, Tony Pope, Julie Phelan, Burt Walters, Bruce Winant, Brad Wurst, Robert Axelrod, William Bassett, Johnny Yong Bosch, Ivan Buckley, Emily Brown, Steve Staley, Paul St. Peter, Dan Woren, Bambi Darro, Josil Ferhardt, Rebecca Forstadt, Sandy Fox, Jessica Gee, Dougary Grant, Skip Stellrecht, W.T. Hatch, Julie Ann Taylor, Matthew Hustin, Simon Prescott, Christopher Joyce, Lee Kelso, William Knight, Lex Lang, Patricia Ja Lee, Peter Lee, Wendee Lee, Mike Lembaw, Detroit Louie, Steve Blum, Jamieson Price, Cody MacKenzie, mona marshall, Dan Martin, Michael McConnohie, Mike Reynolds, Ezra Weisz, Tony Oliver, Jonathan C. Osborne, Guy Pinkham, Richard Plantagenet, Ted Rae, Joe Romersa, Michelle Ruff, Tony Sarducci, Joshua Seth, Adam Sholder, Michael Sorich, Peter Spellos, Doug Stone, Sam Strong, Jim Taggert, Lisa Tarulli, Michael Forest, Chloe Thornton, Kirk Thornton, Michael Lindsay, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Izô Hashimoto
• Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
• Runtime: 2:04
• Company: Telecom Animation Film Company Ltd, Toho, Akira Committe Company Ltd., Dragon Production, Hakuhodo, inc., Kodansha, Mash Room, Nakamura Production, Pioneer, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
• Media Format: Movie