124 mins |
Rated
M (Violence)
Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
Starring Tesshô Genda, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Screening of the new 4K restoration in celebration of the films 35th Anniversary!
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is well on the way to rebuilding after World War III. The central characters, Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop-outs, are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. In the opening scene, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans, apparently for use as weapons. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his 'peer' Akira, the project's most powerful subject, and determines to challenge him...
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Screening of the new 4K restoration in celebration of the films 35th Anniversary!
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is well on the way to rebuilding after World War III. The central characters, Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop-outs, are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. In the opening scene, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans, apparently for use as weapons. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his 'peer' Akira, the project's most powerful subject, and determines to challenge him...