Katsuhiro Otomo

Akira

Writer · Artist

In Neo-Tokyo in 2019, a massive city rebuilt after a catastrophe destroyed the old capital, Kaneda leads a gang of teenage bikers frequently involved in violent clashes. After an accident, his friend Tetsuo is taken in by the military, who discover that he possesses strange psychic abilities. As these powers become increasingly difficult to control, Kaneda is drawn into secret experiments, political struggles, and t…

• Action
• Horror
• Crime

Akira

Screenwriter · Director

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.

• Action
• Science fiction
• Animation