r/CineShots • u/Brooklyn_University • 3d ago

Shot Akira (1988)

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u/polygon_tacos 3d ago

Seeing this in the theater was so surreal. Modern Anime was still something fairly obscure in America that you had to go out of your way to find and watch on VHS and guess what they were saying in Japanese. Here’s this state of the art anime on the big scream and I don’t have to guess.

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u/Brooklyn_University 3d ago

It blew me away when I first watched it - I'd never seen anything like it. Still incredible to think the design team crafted the entire movie old school by sketching each frame on paper, copying it to a transparent cel, and then painting, drying, and photographing the cel against a painted background. No CGI, no AI!

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u/rashi_aks08 3d ago

Truly incredible!

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u/5o7bot Fellini 3d ago

Akira (1988)

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.

Animation | Sci-Fi | Action
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Actors: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 79% with 4,358 votes
Runtime: 204
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u/1nosbigrl 2d ago

Incredible visuals, wildly tedious dialogue and seemingly incomprehensible story.