Akira (1988)
Akira is a 1988 Japanese-language animation movie directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with a running time of 2h 4m. It stars Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki and Mami Koyama.
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.
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Cast
- Mitsuo Iwata as Shotaro Kaneda (voice)
- Nozomu Sasaki as Tetsuo Shima (voice)
- Mami Koyama as Kei (voice)
- Taro Ishida as Colonel Shikishima
- Mizuho Suzuki as Doctor Ônishi
- Tessyo Genda as Ryûsaku (voice)
- Koichi Kitamura as Priestess Miyako / Council A (voice)
- Yuriko Fuchizaki as Kaori (voice)
- Masaaki Okura as Yamagata (voice)
- Takeshi Kusao as Kai (voice)
- Kazuhiro Kamifuji as Masaru / No. 27 (voice)
- Tatsuhiko Nakamura as Takashi / No. 26 (voice)
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