TY - ADVS AU - Otomo, Katsuhiro AU - Iwata,Mitsuo AU - Nozomu Sasaki AU - Mami Koyama AU - Izô Hashimoto AU - Ōtomo,Katsuhiro TI - Akira AV - PN1997 .A557 1988 PY - 2001/// CY - [United States] PB - Pioneer KW - Science fiction films KW - Animated films KW - Feature films KW - Japan N1 - Animated; Based on the novel by Katshuiro Otomo; Original production: c1987; Chief animator, Takashi Nakamura; Voices: Mitsuo Iwata ... [et al.] N2 - 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 boundaires of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious ER -