DVD - Akira (UMD)
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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.
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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DVD information
| Release Date (USA): | 2005-09-13 |
| Rating (USA): | NA |
| Release Date (UK): | 2005-08-29 |
| Rating (UK) : | 15 |
| Director: | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| Producer: | Haruyo Kanesaku, Shunzo Kato, Yutaka Maseba, Ryohei Suzuki & Hiroe Tsukamoto |
| Studio: | N/A |
| Writer/s: | Katsuhiro Otomo |
Cast
| Bob Bergen | Masaru |
| Cam Clarke | Kaneda |
| Watney Held | Additional Voices |
| Steve Kramer | Ryu |
| Marilyn Lane | Additional Voices |
| Lewis Lemay | Additional Voices |
| Stanley Gurd Jr. | Additional Voices |
| Barbara Goodson | Kaori |
| Eddie Frierson | Additional Voices |
| Lara Cody | Kei |
| Tony Pope | Additional Voices |
| Julie Phelan | Additional Voices |
| Burt Walters | Additional Voices |
| Bruce Winant | Additional Voices |
| Brad Wurst | Additional Voices |
DVD Features
| None |
