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📊 Film Specifications
Director Katsuhiro Otomo
Original Title AKIRA
Release Date July 16, 1988
Runtime 124 min (2h 4m)
Country Japan
Language JA
Budget $5,700,000
Box Office $56,725,538
Studios MBS • Sumitomo Corporation • TOHO
Akira (1988)
Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
"Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E."
⭐ 4.0 / 5 (5,101 votes) ⏱️ 124 min 🎬 Animation, Science Fiction, Action
Ratings Breakdown:
5,101 ratings 0.5 Stars 5.0 Stars
Synopsis
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.
Top Cast & Filmmakers
Click any name to view filmography Director 
Katsuhiro Otomo
Director
Screenplay Izo Hashimoto
Screenplay
Screenplay Katsuhiro Otomo
Screenplay
Mitsuo Iwata
Shotaro Kaneda (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki
Tetsuo Shima (voice)
Mami Koyama
Kei (voice)
Taro Ishida
Colonel Shikishima
Mizuho Suzuki
Doctor Ônishi
Tessyo Genda
Ryûsaku (voice)
Koichi Kitamura
Priestess Miyako / Council A (voice)
Yuriko Fuchizaki
Kaori (voice)
Masaaki Okura
Yamagata (voice)
Takeshi Kusao
Kai (voice)
Kazuhiro Kamifuji
Masaru / No. 27 (voice)
Tatsuhiko Nakamura
Takashi / No. 26 (voice)