Akira (Blu-ray)

Neo-Tokyo is about to E X P L O D E Akira isn't just a movie it's the genesis of a genre. Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation and forced the world to look into the future. Akira's arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for movies like the the Matrix to be dreamed into brutal reality. Without Kaneda and Tetsuo, without sonic assassins, without that badass motorcycle our world would be a far less exciting place to exist. But the manga became the movie and the movie became a phenomenon and the world took notice. Now, Akira is everywhere. If you can't see it in the streets if you can't feel it crawling around inside your brain then you have yet to be initiated. What. Are. You. Waiting. For?

Starring: Barbara Goodson, Cameron Clarke, Drew Thomas, Jan Rabson, Johnny Yong Bosch, Lara Cody, Takeshi Kusao, Tony Pope, Wendee Lee, Yasuko Ohno, Yosuke Akimoto, Ian Abercrombie, Mitsuo Iwara, Newell Alexander, Nozomu Sasaki, Erika Anderson, Mami Koyama, Steve Buscemi, Taro Ishida, Masaaki Ohkura, Nicolas Cage, Richard Greenberg, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Eliott Keener, Yousuke Akimoto, Viveca Lindfors, Yuka Ohno, Aaron Neville, Takesi Kusao, Joe Pantoliano, Taroh Ishida, Judge Reinhold, Kazumi Tanaka, Jo-El Sonnier, Marisa Tomei, Barbara Larsen, Bob Bergen, Jimmy Flanders, Kazuhiro Kando, Lewis Lemay, Mizuho Suzuki, Sachie Ito, Sandra Fox, Simon Prescott, Stanley Gurd Jr., Tatsuhiko Nakamura, Tessho Genda

Director: Katsuhiro Kato, Ryohei Suzuki, Sawako Noma, Shunzo Kato

Rating: R