AKIRA

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo

Studio: TMS Entertainment

Year: 1988

IMDB Score: 8/10 Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%

Photo-credit: Wikipedia

Photo-credit: Wikipedia

Akira is a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk film based off of the manga with the same name. Set in a dystopian 2019, Shotaro Kaneda leads a gang of bikers who finds himself in trouble after his childhood friend Tetsuo Shima crashes his bike and gains telekinetic abilities. With this power, he eventually threatens an entire military complex in the middle of a chaotic, rebellious and futuristic Neo-Tokyo. Akira is strikingly violent and moves with high energy that’ll surely keep you gripped to your seat at all times.

The end of the world was only the beginning A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopa...