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| AKIRA |
Year: 1988
UK: Manga Entertainment
Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tessho Genda,
Hiroshi Ohtake, Kôichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko
Fuchizaki, Masaaki Ôkura, Tarô Arakawa, Takeshi Kusao
Director: Katsuhiro Ohtomo
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese (English subtitles)
UK: 125 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains some strong language, violence
and sexual violence
UK Release Date: 24 June 2011 (Limited Re-release)
UK DVD Release Date: 27 June 2011
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Synopsis
To coincide with the company’s 20th anniversary celebrations,
Manga Entertainment release on Blu-ray, for the first time ever, the
movie that started it all and defined the Manga brand as the
world’s leading anime distributor – Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic
AKIRA!
Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest anime features of all time,
the film has been digitally restored and remastered in full HD with
super dynamic “Hypersonic” audio especially for this
long-awaited Blu-ray release. Acknowledged as a hugely influential
and genre-defining anime, this is Akira as never seen or heard
before. An unmissable treat for its established legion of admirers,
this release is set to introduce Otomo’s masterpiece to a whole
new generation of film fans.
Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is being rebuilt following the devastation
of World War III. Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school dropouts,
stumble upon a secret government project to develop a new form of
weaponry – telekinetic humans. Tetsuo learns of the existence of
his ‘peer’, Akira, the project's most powerful subject, and
determines to challenge him...
DVD EXTRAS:
A special limited edition collectors’ SteelBook containing both
the DVD and the Blu-ray disc
Special Features include: Digitally Remastered Feature; 16:9
Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation; English Dolby Digital 5.1
Surround Sound, English Stereo 2.0 and Japanese Stereo 2.0 audio
options; optional English, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Finnish
and Swedish subtitles.
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