Akira

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The film takes place in 1988 and 2019.	D
The movie consists of 2,212 shots and 160,000 single pictures, 2-3 times more than usual, using 327 [...]	D
A character named K 9999, from the King of Fighters game series, was based off the Akira character T [...]	D
The dive bar where the Capsules hang out at the start of the film is called "Haruki-ya". A rough tra [...]	D
Katsuhiro Ã”tomo did not intend to adapt the series outside of the manga. However, he became 'ver [...]	D
Barbara Goodson is the only voice actress to have been in both the Streamline Pictures dub and the P [...]	D
The scene in which Tetsuo flies up into outer space to destroy the satellite is very scientifically [...]	D
The Akira Committee was the name given to a partnership of several major Japanese entertainment comp [...]	D
The computer sounds, which can be heard during Tetsuo's body scan, were taken from the MU-TH-UR comp [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The English dub voice actors for Shimazaki, Tony Pope and Robert Axelrod were born two years apart f [...]	D
The production budget was nearly $10 million, a record sum for a Japanese animation film.	D
Was chosen by Entertainment Weekly magazine as one of the "100 New Classics" ranking as #74 in the J [...]	D
This was one of the first Japanese anime films to have the characters' voices recorded before they w [...]	D
The music for the film was completed before any of the composers saw a frame of film or read the scr [...]	D
If you look carefully during the scene where Tetsuo first begins to hallucinate you can see a series [...]	D
Originally released in the U.S. by Streamline Pictures in 1990. A decade later, Pioneer Entertainmen [...]	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
At around 38:00 into the film, when Colonel Shikishima is listening to Dr. Onishi's assessment conce [...]	D
At one point in the 1990s, Sony contemplated a live-action version of the film, but scrapped the ide [...]	D
Patricia Ja Lee's debut. Her voice is in many non English films and TV series (dubbing).	D
The scene with the black circles just before the final scene and credits is actually a pencil test.	D
Tokyo Movie Shinsha, the production company that produced the movie, would go on to animate various [...]	D
Ye is a huge fan of the film and used some scenes from the movie in the music video for his song 'St [...]	D
Johnny Yong Bosch and Mona Marshall would later work together in Doraemon (2005) once again Bosch vo [...]	D
Katsuhiro Ã”tomo originally created the AKIRA manga as an homage to manga artist Mitsuteru Yokoya [...]	D
The shot of Kaneda's bike sliding to a stop away from the camera in the opening bike chase sequence [...]	D
This film was animated directly into the 1.85:1 theatrical ratio, using physically wider media, as o [...]	D
The movie takes place in 2019 and depicts Neo-Tokyo creating a new Olympic stadium. Coincidentally, [...]	D
In the riot scene, Kei pushes past a man wearing a sweater bearing the word 'Young'. Young Magazine [...]	D
The film was completed in 1987 and released in 1988, two years before the manga officially ended in [...]	D
Because Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. licensed Akira through Manga Entertainment rather than Pionee [...]	D
Despite Kaneda being older than Tetsuo, both English dub voice actors for Tetsuo, Jan Rabson and Jos [...]	D
A German music project named Sunbeam had a huge hit in 1995 with a rave song, that included the samp [...]	D
In the scene where Kaneda is at the jukebox you can see the logos of three famous classic rock bands [...]	D
After Pioneer Entertainment remastered the film in 2001, the original Streamline dub was unavailable [...]	D
Computer-generated imagery was used in the film, primarily to animate the pattern indicator used by [...]	D
The film is widely credited with breaking anime into mainstream Western audiences.	D
Original Kaneda and Tetsuo's Voice Actors - Mitsuo Iwata and Nozomu Sasaki - are peers at the time o [...]	D
The film was re-released in 2001 with a new voice dub and soundtrack, reportedly costing over $1 mil [...]	D
The 1940s-style song heard following the terrorist bombing is "Tokyo Shoe Shine Boy", released in 19 [...]	D
Katsuhiro Ã”tomo also wrote the manga of the same name.	D
The film has aired three times on the Sci-Fi channel in North America: the original Streamline Pictu [...]	D
The movie is also notable for being one of the few animated movies to be released by The Criterion C [...]	D
Katsuhiro Ã”tomo is claimed to have filled 2000 pages of notebooks, containing various ideas and [...]	D
At one point a demonstrator is seen wearing a baseball cap with wings. A similar cap is a plot eleme [...]	D
The 4K version contains both the original 1988 VHS English dub and the 2001 DVD/Blu-Ray re-dub.	D
Streamline Pictures is reported to have become the film's distributor when both George Lucas and Ste [...]	D
"Akira" means "Bright, intelligent, clear" in Japanese.	D
The name Tetsuo literally means "Iron Man" in Japanese - a foreshadowing of the indestructible power [...]	D

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