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# Akira (1988)
- URL: https://justincox.com/blog/2025/11/akira-1988/
- Published: 2025-11-24T01:02:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-20T13:38:34.000Z
- Description: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Author: Justin Cox
- Tags: Review, #movies, #mitsuo-iwata, #nozomu-sasaki, #mami-koyama, #taro-ishida, #katsuhiro-otomo, #3stars, #affiliate

## Director

Katsuhiro Otomo

## Staring

Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, and Taro Ishida

## Overview

*Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.*

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.

## Review

![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/neZ0ykEsPqxamsX6o5QNUFILQrz.jpg) 

#### Akira

Whatever happened to dystopian cyberpunk stories? It seems like they all died out with Y2K. Maybe they became real life? Anyway, Akira is a classic even if it is a mind fuck. Also, Kaiori gets sucked into the blobverse, yet no one cares. Sad.

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