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Akira
Content:	Feature Film
Available From:	Amazon.com
Media Type:	DVD
Release Date:	1987, 2001
Audience:	Higher Education
Running Time:	124 mins.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (124 min.) :; sd., col. ;; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	Japanese with English Subtitles
Author:	Screenplay and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
Subject:	History
Subheading:	History, Contemporary (21st Century)
Region:	East Asia
Country:	Japan

A milestone in the history of Japanese animation. A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.

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